At 07:57 PM 6/5/2005, you wrote:
Steve & Tom,
It's a single point distributor. It's the original. I ordered the car in
1970 and I haven't had any problems until I started it up this year. It
sat all winter in the garage. I rebuilt the original spread bore 750 cfm,
tried a Holley Economizer 450 cfm and a new Holley 650 and I still have
the same problem. New plugs and wires. Distributor cap and rotor are
fairly new. If you floor it in park, it picks up and then misses and
sometimes back fires when I advance the timing to about 16*. It's worse
when I set it to factory specs, 4* but now backfire. It does the same
when you drive it and floor it. I did put a new fuel pump on and that
didn't help. I guess I should change the coil next.
tony
You say new wires?? Check your firing order first, be sure you don't have
a wire in the wrong hole. If that's OK, then I'd replace the points,
condenser, & rotor first, even if (especially if) they have been replaced
recently. Condensers & rotors are known for weird problems. Good luck,
BL
