The barracuda finally ran today under its own power for a few minutes. Definitely has some bugs to work out. I finally just gave up on that mallory unit i was trying to use and stuck in an old circa 1970 points setup. Fired right up... kind of. I put the timing light on it and cant even see the timing mark on balancer, mark must be waaay out of range. I know the balancer itself has not slipped, I checked that this fall with a TDC stop. It was dead on. Next thought was distributor set in 180 off. Absolutely sure it is in correctly as I just did it an hour before fire up. I bumped the motor with a remote starter and the finger in the hole method. Sure felt like it was on compression stroke. Plug wires are all hooked up in correct order. It is backfiring out the pipes, not thru carb. Any help will be greatly appreciated
Neal Zimmerman, Eugene Oregon