So I got the timing taken care of. I feel like a goof. I didn't have the distributor quite loose enough to advance more. I ended up putting the plug wires back to how they were, and once I spun the housing farther counter-clockwise, it was fine. I had to look up timing online, and I found a picture of a stock distributor and saw how it was clocked...vacuum adv was facing forward. That's when I decided to loosen the distributor hold down a little more.
So it fires and runs good, but still is a little lean, since it runs much smoother when I put my hand over half of the carb. It still won't try to idle, and it still slowly gets hot, but that must be the tiny radiator and some air in the cooling lines, since the top hose goes a little high then down to get to the radiator. The timing is about 12 degrees at idle and about 32-36 degrees total with the vacuum port plugged.
It does sound good and boy is it snappy.
I'm thinking about ordering the Offy intake while I still have the run stand (and while Summit still has them in stock!).
Will get a video soon.
Last edited by 47Thriftmaster250; 02/04/15 12:50 AM.
