[mad68rs]

I also started the car for the first time! It started right up! Stopped it. Tried to start it up again and was having troubles. I played with the timing a bunch. Took off the valve cover and turned the motor. The intake and exhaust for cylinder 1 weren't opening and closing. Felt the rocker arms and they were loose! So took apart the valvetrain and had a bent rod. So then I checked the sizes on the rods and they weren't the correct sizes. Took some advice from my dad and just rebuilt the valvetrain with new rods and lifters. I wanted to redo the whole top end to be safe because a mistake like this worries me. The engine was rebuilt by the previous owner, and from the looks of it, never got it refired. He passed away so it's hard to get any real good information on it. I did find out through some research that it is an L-78. Something that was unknown at the time of purchase and pretty cool. I haven't fired it up again yet but it's all ready to go.