Pertronix distributor install help needed

I was doing a timing chain and intake gaskets on a Chev 305cu one day in front of a guy like you talked about at the gas station, so just to screw with the "knowitall" I put the cam 180 off and the distributor 180 off.
As soon as he saw the timing chain lined up the way I did it he swore it was never going to run.

Won 20 bucks off him when it fired right up. :D



67Dart273 said
From discussions on this board, "it might be" that other dists besides Pertronix are not necessarily clocked as per original.

"Someone else" mentioned that the distributor gear/ rotor "can point to China" and the thing will still run FINE

Hell, my first 57 Chev, I wasn't even aware that there WAS a "correct" way to orient the rotor. I still remember a gas station jock who was checking the oil, tell me "It can't run, the distributor is out of time" after I had just driven the car into his station!!!!

Now this DOES MATTER on some engines. The "odd fire" V6's and some 4 whangers have every other pair of cylinders firing close together, with a big wide space in between. But "traditional" straight six's and V8's don't matter in the least
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