Good advice, C9x!

But I don't know where the cam timing/degreeing came from ... all I suggested above was juggling his plug wires around to give tim_bo16 more room to adjust the mechanical advance due to the interference he's having now with the vac can on the dist.

I agree you don't want to go messing around with cam timing at this point and probably want to focus on getting the ignition timing nailed down...

Thanks, C9x for helping out here. You have much more experience with this than I. BTW, tim_b016, I'm fairly new to this stuff too and a great deal of what I've learned the last few years came from the wise(guys ) on this forum...

-Chris