Thread: Freshly Built 383, Oil question

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Thanks for the help guys, its all back together and running sweet, machined down the pistons and even installed decompression shims to bring compression back to 9.6:1. No knocking gee what a surprise, one last question if anyone can help out Im running 10 degrees initial timing and I just drove the car and turned it off came back about 6 minutes later tried to start her and ended up cooking the starter motor, and melted the battery terminals. Is it reluctant to start hot because of the amount of initial timing, it cant be vapour lock because I dont run pump petrol just lpg which works only by a vacuum draw. Rummm youve got the same camsaft as ive got whats your vac readings at idle or a specific rpm. If i bring initial timing back up to say 2 degrees wont I loose performance, went through the camaro manuals and they run between tdc and 10 deg advance. Recommendations
Oil problem was engine honey from assembly took a bloody long time to come through, now got plenty of oil everywhere
Thanks guys