a little help please...a little long...

OK

Got off a little early to day and toyed with the stang....

Got the brakes bled off and messed around with the timing...

Here is the situation...

1. rebuilt the engine in '92 bored .030 and used this cam: http://www.cranecams.com/index.php?show=browseParts&action=partSpec&partNumber=363901&lvl=2&prt=5
since then it has sat...went off to College...

2. got the car towed to me in June...cleaned it up a little...drained fluids and put new fluids in...

3. disconnected the coil and turned over engine a few times...
waited...
repeated...

4. replaced the fuel pump was not pumping...

5. got it to start...

6. The distributor was replaced in '92, and the Alt & volt reg.

7. once started the alt was not putting out...replaced it...

8. ordered a pertronix original and a flame thrower black coil...whish I would have gotten the chrome...

9. put in new plugs...

Now for today... got the car out on the road... drove a couple of miles...and guess what......

It does not seem to pull...

I floor it and it just gradually pulls off the line... can't power brake...can't get the wheels to break loose...I push the throttle up to the kickdown point and it gradually accelerates...if it down shifts it does accelerate...

I thought maybe trans...but it shifts through the gears fine...


Any ideas...

Checked and rechecked timing...

set 14 BTDC seems to run smoothest there or above...original specs call for 12 I think..it is hard to start there and runs rougher...

I installed the pertroix straight...read an article somewhere on the web that did not say anything about a ballast resistor wire on a 65 mustang... it is a '65 does this car have a ballast wire? Does it really need to be bypassed?

Does the cam affect the timing setting? If so where do I find the mfg timing setting?

also the exhaust is open... both mufflers blown out so that is really throwing me off.

Any assistance would be appreciated...

well...

Well since it was built in '92 I cannot say with certainty that it is not...

But I was fairly precise at the time...

I cannot rule that out at the moment...

Anyone want to suggest a way to verify without pulling the timing cover and waterpump?

update

OK an update...

I checked the timing again the right way....

I forgot that I had reconnected the vacume advance...it had been disconnected and plugged originally when I started...

It is a little high at about 9 BTD in park vacume advance diconnected and plugged.

So later today when I have a chance I will re-adjust and drive it again...

I'll report back this evening...