As a few of you know I have been trying to bring the vette back to life after a 5-6 year unplanned storage due one of lifes unplanned adventures into near poverty. All is well now.

I have been fighting a poor running 350 cu in engine for a few weeks now. Backfiring, stuttering followed by a few minutes of running quite great. I blamed the ignition so I bought a brand new HEI unit. No change. Bought a new Edelbrock 600 Performer. No change. New plug, wires, cap, rotor etc etc etc. You got it no change. This last week I bought a new set of heads, Vortec 1.94's, and this weekend I proceeded to start tearing down the motor in the car. While I was at it I decided to tear the front of the motor down and look at the timing gear and chain. With the engine at TDC (Crank key at 2 o'clock) the cam gear appeared to be 180deg out. The aligning pin on the cam was at 9 o'clock position instead of 3 o'clock. I took it all apart and set if up as described above and lo and behold the dots on the cam gear and crank gear are aligned. How did this engine ever run? Its been like this for many years.