Starting my engine on a stand, issues arose Options

[malcolm2]

I have built a fresh 2.0 and borrowed a set of weber 40s to get her running, broken-in etc....

I bought a new single vacuum distributor with the flame thrower 3 module inside. Also bought the Petronix coil.

I built up oil pressure, then connected the gas lines, fuel pump, and coil. Tach and timing light too.

After a few tries, she started. As expected running very ruff. Back-firing thru the carbs.

I loosened the distributor and tried to make some adjustments. That seemed to help the back-firing a bit, but not totally. I got the idle timing to what looks like 7 btdc, but it is tuff to work everything without a helper.

I know next to nothing about these carbs, and about the same amount to tune them enough to bench run the engine, but I am looking into that. Any help would be appreciated on the carbs.

I got it idling, again, very ruff. So I wanted to do the cam break in, so I rev'd it up to about 3000 and held there. Maybe a minute and the revs dropped and I had to putz with the accelerator to keep her going. Again up to 3000, same thing revs dropped.

I have a note in to my distributor vendor about how this "rev limiter" on this module works.

So three things here. She is still running ruff, back-firing etc...and there is the high rev cut-off. Lastly the carbs, any quick checks or adjustments there? Any thoughts or suggestions?