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02-12-2024 06:06 AM #5
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Well the site went down for a while, but I messaged Mike/34_40 that I was watching one of the hot rod build shows on MotorTrend the other night and they were bringing a '67 Nova SS back to "nearly stock", kind of a "resto-mod" with a 350SBC. When they went to crank it fired but they couldn't get it in time because the HEI distributor was hitting the firewall and couldn't rotate far enough. The guy explained that "...back in the day the engine had a points style distributor that was smaller..." Bottom line, they didn't want to cut the firewall, so they used a smaller top dizzy, fired it up and quickly got the base timing set.
Hope that you didn't give up on CHR because it was down for a few days! If you have time, we love to see pictures of projects!Last edited by rspears; 02-12-2024 at 08:59 AM.
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