Well we found the problem... the distributor gear went bye-bye.......
Its was pretty trashed and broken apart on one side....... I'll try and post pix later......
When I turned the motor over by hand more the rotor turned but got to a point that it seemed like it lagged some. The timing marks were pretty close, so at first we didnt think it was that. But I couldnt come up with a different scenario to have the car die and have the oil pressure disappear ( I can understand the guage thing, but it would have to be one hella of a coincidence to have the car die like that and have the guage/sender die too..)
Its and MSD distributor and Comp Cam said we didnt need to run a bronze gear with this cam, so we left the stock gear.....
So I think the safest thing to do is pull the motor and check it all out.... I have too much $$ into this to risk it.....
We drained the oil and cut the filter and there is some fine metal in the filter.... the motor was set up with no oil bypass so 100% of the oil goes through the filter and I was using a K&N, so hopefully there isnt much metal floating anywhere....
PITA but the safest thing......
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