I think I may have found the retarded timing problem. It seems I couldn't go anymore advanced the way it was, so while I was out today, I stopped by my buddies shop to look at the parts car I got some p/s brackets and pulleys from. I took a picture of the distributor from the top down to see where it was clocked. When I got home, I looked at my distributor, and it seems that the spark plug wires were one off all the way around, and with it advanced all the way that the distributor would turn, it was still way retarded. I fixed all the wires and put the distributor in the same spot as the stock one, which puts the #1 spot on the cap right in line with the #1 spark plug. I haven't started it yet, but it seems like that could have been a big factor. Thanks for the heads up about the timing stokersix and Tom. If not for that, I wouldn't have thought to look at a stock distributor clocking. I'll post back once I fire it up again.
