Base Timing Question

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Haha yes thats what I was looking for. For some reason after the winter here I am having issues starting the car and just wanted to rule out that my Timing was not out of wack. But ya I have literally tried both as well as checked for spark, fuel, ect and all checks out fairly ok. My plugs I will say look ok but a few of them look like they need the gapping checked. so I will continue to diagnose it. Thanks again for the response

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HISSIN50 said:

Be sure your rotor was properly indexed or the injector timing can be off.

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Well If I align the Damper to 10* BTDC and then stab the dizzy in with the rotor pointing at the #1 spark plug wire the car should start Correct? well for some reason its not. But if I turn the dizzy clockwise literally as far as I can turn it I can get the car to start granite I do have to fiddle with the throttle. so what does this mean? when I go clock wise does it increase my timing by that amount? and possibly how much do you think it could be adding. Should I also try to go higher than 10* BTDC and re-stab and align to #1? thanks for any help!

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Ok I set it to 10* BTC on the damper and turning over a few times and pumping the gas (and doing the hold to floor trick to shut off injectors) I can get it to start to fire and eventually fire but I literally have to be on the gas to keep it running it wont idle. So by turning clockwise on the dizzy does that add timing (I think it adds) and if im getting it to fire here but not completely idle what do you guys think I should do? keep adding timing or subtracting? Also I know im in the compression stroke I did the finger trick in the #1 plug (which works excellent lol) thanks guys

hrm I get nothing with it at 0* it almost seems like if I have it at 10* I can get it to want to start and like I said by pumping the gas it sometimes will start up but of course not idle on its own. and also if now I try to turn the dizzy clock wise from the rotors point at 10* it does not seem to help.

Isnt the damper keyed so it cannot slip? Also I just orded New Plug wires and Plugs, what gap do you think I should be using as well?

Car is finally Starting

Ok I purchased a set of NGK Spark plugs and gapped them to what Trick Flow recommends me to gap them to, I also have replaced all my plug wires with some Accel wires I set the engine to 10* BTDC on the damper and stabbed the dizzy so the #1 wire is in line with that also made sure im on the compression stroke with the finger in the #1 plug trick and now to get the car to start if I turn it over and pump the throttle I can get it to sputter and then fire up. Now it will not run for that long and usually will die if I let of the gas at all. Any idea's what could be the problem here? dirty fuel filter? im not even sure so any help would be mucho appreciated.