Re: Help with a recent 8ba rebuild
You can do what was mentioned up above - to be sure your timing is correctly set . . . or you can explore other distributor options. Even with the initial timing set correctly, you'll still have an advance curve to deal with - and you won't really be able to tune it to match your modified engine.
If it was mine, I'd probably ditch the stock distributor and find a Mallory mechanical advance distributor and have it rebuilt or converted for a flathead advance curve. You can also have SBC distributors modified to work on a flathead.
There are a few guys that can help you with this - Charlie NY is one of them. The stock distributor understands the vacuum signal of a stock engine - it has no mechanical advance. When the vacuum signal is changed from stock, then the advance curve changes with it.
While some guys can get them to work on non-stock engines . . . to me, I'd much rather go with a completely different setup.
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