First Let me say thank you all for piping in ,for as you know Missouri loves company. Okay I admit to being lazy about dropping the headers and pulling valve covers for compression check and valve adjustments.So it shall be done but in the meantime,could we address the timing mark issue.The accel does exactly the same as the the one it replaced.I have a used HEI distributor I can try but still have to wonder why I can't time this with a light and have it run like it does statically.
Thanks for enlightenment on accel,as it is a 250.00 P.O.S.,lesson learned.I will get to the comp. and valve train soon and post findings.

Thank you all again,
Rick
P.S. 36 Sedan ,just wanted to be a grammar nut and response to "god to see you here" wnat was my contribution to misspelling ;-)