Grandfather's 68 SS Camaro.

[JRC99]

More progress. It's damn near ready for break in. Need belts, different plugs (apparently we've had the wrong ones in it for years so the ones I ordered are wrong) and a different PCV grommet. It got 80psi when primed. To the surprise of absolutely nobody, the heads and intake have been very much ported. It's still wild to me that I don't know what this car is supposed to feel like... but we're gonna fix that! I've also decided I should probably replace the heater core and hoses while I have the motor out. I don't want a drop of old coolant to circulate through this thing. Too many memories of the day being cut short by the gauge leaping to 210 as soon as the car stopped rolling.

[JRC99]

We've got good news and bad news. Good news is he got it running and broke the cam in with his distributor. Bad news is he then put my stuff in... and it won't run worth a damn. Brand new PerTronix III with matching coil and Accel wires (and yes they're spiral suppression core)

https://youtu.be/ljQr325b4bk

EDIT: He got it to work. I'll be bringing it home in a couple of hours.

[dykstra]

Sounds great!!

[Too Many Projects]

The vid moves around too quickly to clearly see what distributor the builder is using, but is the stand supplying full 12 volts to your distributor ?? If his doesn't require 12 volts to perform correctly, the Pertonix does, and that could be a cause for it to not run well.

[JRC99]

Originally Posted by Too Many Projects

The vid moves around too quickly to clearly see what distributor the builder is using, but is the stand supplying full 12 volts to your distributor ?? If his doesn't require 12 volts to perform correctly, the Pertonix does, and that could be a cause for it to not run well.

So those videos were with his MSD setup. He did end up getting mine to run. He said it was something to do with setting the rev limiter. He'd never used a PerTronix before and is not a fan

It's back home now. Waiting on headers. Dropped em off to get sandblasted and then they'll be getting that Alvin paint (thanks to Chuck_Burg for making me aware of this stuff. Hope it works for me). You'll notice the back seat is out. This is because I'd lost the keys and was worried I'd locked them in the trunk. I spent days looking for them. I just found them like five minutes before I left to get the engine. They were in the dirt where I park my truck in the back. I also need to get the rebuilt carb rebuilt because it's leaking. I knew that price was too good to be true. At least it worked good enough for the break in. And yes, I plan on replacing that fuel line with some hard line.