Carter AFB 9636 ?

Update -

Hah ! Figured it out. There are no problems with what I did with the cam or anything else. Confidence restored - sort of. What I did do wrong was make a stupid bad assumption without verifying the details -

For those that may end up doing something similar - I will pass my hard earned knowledge along.

Car is a 66 dart - thus I wanted the timing marks on the pass side of the chain cover. The engine is a 68 318. The timing cover is from that engine and has the timing marks on the pass side unlike the drivers side of the cover as in later model engines. The vibration dampner is from a '77 318. Knowing that the timing mark on the vib dampner was going to be off, I assumed that the marks were 90* apart, (wrong!). Since the 77 vib dampner has index marks every 90* apart from TDC - I chose the next one that follows the correct one for a the 77 application, figured that was easy.....

DOH ! I checked a 66 273 dampner and a 70"s damper - huh-oh they arent 90* apart. They are maybe 75 -80 degrees difference - Well, just goes to show details are where its at, and I usually dont miss stuff like this.

So, I am going to reset the timing at 25 btdc as is, move the car into the warm garage, use a positive stop on #1 and remark my tdc line on to the dampner. after that will reset the dist to 10 btdc using the new mark pull the carb install the electric choke, reset the floats to spec, and finally be a happy man.

Stupid is as stupid does - we never stop learning do we, or when you assume u make an *** out of u and me?