Hi guys, so im new here. Im working on a project 67 chevelle. I did a search and didn't really come up with too much. I will try and give as much info as possible, and i will follow up with the solution when the time comes. So i have a 67 chevelle. I swapped a 350 with turbo 350tranny which came out of a 69 chevelle my brother bought last year. He had a built drive train for it already so he gave me this one. He drove the car home about an hour and for a couple days after purchasing with no issues , before he did his swap. The engine sat in my garage for about 4 months before i dropped it in. Went to fire and got nothing. We dont know the internals but its a 350 (010 block) with edelbrock performer intake, holley 650 carb, hei distributor. I put new delco plugs, gapped at .045, new moroso wires and hedman headers and changed oil and filter, and put mini starter (oem) Aside from that i didn't touch the motor itself. I haven't wired the car up yet, i just wanted to fire the motor first before doing all that. So we hooked up a good battery with cables to a good ground, and the starter. A jumper to the positive on the distributor and one to jump starter solenoid. Ran a hose from fuel pump to a jerry can of gas. Very basic. Starter cranks engine over. Tested all connections. Get battery voltage at starter and distributor, spark at plugs(although i think its a touch weak), fuel squirts into the carb when i give i hit throttle (with good pressure at the line going into the carb) , new clean fuel filter. Distributor was not touched so timing shouldnt have changed. Pulled cap and can see rotor spinning. Olugs wires aee in correct order. The thing was fine when he pulled it from his car and it wants to fire up but just wont. we've been trying to figure it out for a few days. If anyone has any ideas or has been through this before i would really appreciate it. Thanks
can not get chevelle started
sausmonkey
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Exactly, distributor hasn't been touched. . I will check it tomorrow though i guess anyway. Haven't had much time to work on it between jobs. But tmrw night my bro is going to come by and well try a few things. Anyone ever have a module go bad in the distributor and still get spark but no start?
Edit: quick thought. With vacuum advance with the hose coming off the distributor around 7 o'clock/730 right now uf i turned 180 it would be at the firewall...if it would even clear it
Edit: quick thought. With vacuum advance with the hose coming off the distributor around 7 o'clock/730 right now uf i turned 180 it would be at the firewall...if it would even clear it
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Ah ok. I thought that was somehow connected to the shaft. Well do that tmrw night
My China, OFF shore, Junk Alum. $100.00 HEI,,,,, ATE Modules, 6 in one summer, I am dam good a changing them out. Had to do something. Went to a chevy Dealer and bought a new G.M.--H.E.I.
OH, Did I mention, I have NOT touched the G.M.-HEI in 6 years.
With no respect for China stuff.
( Good parts aint cheap & Cheap parts aint good )
Bob
Trivia: Remember the old Purolater TV Spot, " Pay me now or pay me later, Your Going to pay me ".
OH, Did I mention, I have NOT touched the G.M.-HEI in 6 years.
With no respect for China stuff.
( Good parts aint cheap & Cheap parts aint good )
Bob
Trivia: Remember the old Purolater TV Spot, " Pay me now or pay me later, Your Going to pay me ".
Finding T.D.C............. Like I said in my first post. " USE YOUR FINGER ".As the piston is comming up ,,,It will blow your finger off the plug hole, I think this means, Valves are closed, Piston is on Compression Stroke.
THIS is the T.D.C. of the Comp. stroke and number 1 plug is going to see a few thousand volts.
If the module is fried, It WILL NOT fire or even try to start.
Bob
THIS is the T.D.C. of the Comp. stroke and number 1 plug is going to see a few thousand volts.
If the module is fried, It WILL NOT fire or even try to start.
Bob
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Wow so my brother and i finally had a chance to play with the car for a bit. We took a quick look at things before starting. Starter and battery-check, fuel-check, spark-looks good. Crank and nothing as usual. I remember back a while i was searching firing orders(when i got the motor from my brother there were no plugs or wires installed) and i had seen something about counter clockwise firing orders and had taken a screen shot. So i say lets try swapping the wires around, just in case. The thing was popping and chugging and cranking and the whole car was shaking and was the closest to starting it has been yet. But im sure its flooded at this point as was backfiring. So i pulled the plugs and gonna let it sit til tomorrow and try again. Now the motor was out of his 69 chevelle. Its a 3970010 block but has been decked so the number is not on the front pad anymore. Im just wondering what this could have been originally out of that the firing order would be counter clockwise???? I will post tomorrow after we get it started 
or so i hope
or so i hope
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The distributor turns clockwise, you need to find tdc as stated above and then wire it like this:
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So thanks to all who gave suggestions. Finally got the car fired up today. We checked the timing, even though the distributor never got moved or bumped. It was installed one tooth off by the previous owner . Since my bro had pulled the plugs and wires we had nothin to go by except how it should've been wired. So after seeing where the rotor was at tdc of cyl 1 we moved all the wires over one spot clockwise and the thing runs like a dream.
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