Pissed off with motor, want to change

Just to be sure, I turned the motor to #1 TDC and aligned the timing marks. The rotor is pointing at the #1 cylinder on the cap. And my #1 on the cap is just left of center. The weird thing is that it was running beautifully before the wash. I just can't believe it would be timing or a misadjustment. You would think the problem would have been there all along if that was the case.

Ignition issues are weird animals Things can appear that seem related to. Some cause, but generally coincidental. I had a distrutor wire from the pickup to the ecu go bad, having 5-30 ohms resistance, depending on how I wiggled the wire. I also had problem with wiring on the dist to the plugs being off due to the location of the rotor on the shaft. FBO had installed it wrong.