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After 30 years of hibernation, my old Lancer wagon runs again! I made a few blasts down the road in front of the house and man did that feel good! Local strip has a vintage race event scheduled for September and I got my reservation confirmation back today! The car still has a Mallory dual...

I bought a 71 Roadrunner some years back from a guy who claimed to be an electrician. He'd done the same thing all over the car, only used the screw on, home wiring style wire splices. THAT was impressive. About 50% of the wiring didn't work when I tore into it. I had a huge rats nest bundle of...

I'll go out on a limb here and say I don't think the coil/alternator interference would be the problem. If it was it seems like that should cause erratic firing and you'd be popping out the carb and exhaust seemingly at random, like when the rotor is out of phase. I doubt you could control it by...

That sounds like the kind of outfit we'd all like to deal with. Hope it works out well for you.

Some good points already made, but to better understand your specifics, a few questions: 1) little more info on engine? 2) did the starter sound 'normal' initially as it rotated the engine, or was there a change in sound as it spun? 3) when you say restored do you mean a shop rebuilt the...

Thanks for all the input guys!

Thanks. Your photo appears to show a straight plug boot at #8?

Thanks much! Any thoughts on the 2 straight spark plug boots? I thought they both went at the rear of the engine (#7 and #8)

I've searched this forum and used Google as well, trying to determine the proper placement of the 2 'straight' boot plug wires that come with a replacement set of wires advertised as matching OEM. I'm further baffled by some of the distributor cap plugs have right angle boots while others have...

UPDATE: The distributor Don sold me arrived late week. Cleaned it up, adjusted the gap and installed it this afternoon. Engine runs much better now. Idle is smoother and even the exhaust note sounds better to me. Vacuum advance works like I expected it to. I believe the problem is solved...

This photo is very helpful. I now understand much better what the other guys were getting at regarding a rotor phase problem. I can compare mine to the 440 distributor I've on hand too. Thanks much! I did have time today to try reversing the two distributor lead wires. No spark, so this one...

Thanks once again for your input everyone! This forum is terrific! To answer a few more points that have been made: 1) No adjustment provision on the vacuum advance unit. 2) Put a hand vacuum pump on the advance and it moves the plate in the clockwise (correct) direction. I compared the rate...

Thanks for the input. I understood the ported bleed wouldn't work until the throttle opened up. My point was hooking to either port got the same results, just at a different RPM, although I must say it didn't take much RPM change to cause the retarding action with the ported bleed. I'd double...

I'd mentioned in my first post the distributor came from a well known eBay seller....... but I don't wish to malign his good name, so hadn't mentioned it. Anyway, thanks all for the great comments and plenty more to think about!

I thought about the ported vs unported vacuum port. Decided vacuum is vacuum, and the only difference should be when it's applied. I did try both anyway, and got pretty similar results.

Here you go. The plug wires are in disarray as I'd been moving them around to make sure I didn't have any cross firing going on.

Lord, how many hours I've burned up trying to start an engine with the distributor in 180 degrees out! You gets lots of interesting bangs coming out both ends of the engine. Before posting I'd done some searching and had seen a comment that aftermarket electronic distributors will run with the...

When I increase RPM's with the vacuum advance disconnected, the mechanical advance works as I'd expect.

I have the one on the right. If it was a small block, I believe the rotation is clockwise, while I know big block is counter clockwise. I should have never gotten the engine to fire with the plug wires in position for the counter clockwise rotation on a clockwise distributor.

I've been noodling over this issue for a day now. This spring I pulled a very tired 440 out of my car and replaced it with a fresher 383. The 440 had a Mopar Performance electronic ignition setup on it, and it worked well. Because of that, I purchased a new electronic distributor from a well...