Anyone tried one of these HEI Distributors?

darc1722 said
I was looking at the new distributor next to my old one and noticed that it lines up different. Please see photo, the original has the rotor parallel to the key that goes to the oil pump gear (they both point in the same direction). The new one is off by at least an inch as the rotor is off by about two plug wires. Is this normal or did I get a bad one?
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I wouldn't think that is normal as normally you would be able to put the distributor in time or 180 out and that would throw it out. If the rotor is solid on the shaft you could over come this by just moving the plug wires over to the correct places.

Someone else chime in if im wrong.