Slow 1/8 with 74 440 dart

It's hard to see from the pictures, but you could have a bad ignition system component, along with bad timing, and a carb that's not right either. I personally would inspect all of those components and make sure each of those was working properly. Is that carb from a known good running car? Or was it new? Are the metering blocks warped? I mean, I think you have more than one contributing factor here. Have you verified TDC ? Or is the balancer reading wrong on your timing.....
yea verified balancer is reading right with TDC. and i've got a few carbs to play with to troubleshoot it out. i'd also like to swap to HEI or an msd box of the sorts at some point