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I got the fuel pressure regulator to work and it shows about 3.5psi so I don't think it's a fuel delivery issue, it stays steady through the revs at about there in park or neutral.

I replaced the plugs and wires, popped off a valve cover and found TDC, and put everything back where it should go and that didn't solve my problem.

Not sure where to look at this point, the distributor seems to be working correctly and I verified spark with a timing light. Timing is set at about 10 degrees initial, and it goes up to nearly 40 at 3k so I'm going to have to weight it correctly.

Originally Posted by tunerpunk

I got the fuel pressure regulator to work and it shows about 3.5psi so I don't think it's a fuel delivery issue, it stays steady through the revs at about there in park or neutral.

I replaced the plugs and wires, popped off a valve cover and found TDC, and put everything back where it should go and that didn't solve my problem.

Not sure where to look at this point, the distributor seems to be working correctly and I verified spark with a timing light. Timing is set at about 10 degrees initial, and it goes up to nearly 40 at 3k so I'm going to have to weight it correctly.

so when you rev it up in park it does not miss ? .. could be wires .. my chevy V6 pinto was giving me that kind problem and i changed all the electronics and finally found the problem to be a bad connection on the starter solenoid that fed the ignition ,, check all connections ..

Originally Posted by HOSS429

so when you rev it up in park it does not miss ? .. could be wires .. my chevy V6 pinto was giving me that kind problem and i changed all the electronics and finally found the problem to be a bad connection on the starter solenoid that fed the ignition ,, check all connections ..

I was wrong, it was misfiring with no load as well. I dropped in a new coil and started it up, went for an open header rip down the frontage road near my house and didn't have any breaking up or anything. I think that's what the issue was, but when I got home my starter died so I have a straight bolt high torque mini on the way. I've had some trouble with starter gears not making it far enough out to engage the flywheel correctly, but this one is adjustable so I think it'll work.

Thanks for the input guys, I'll report back with results when the starter shows up!