Hello again!
It has been a few weeks, I spent the last twoish months chasing down clutch related issues with the car and taking some time off. Back at it with some timing issues!
The engine runs well however, when using a timing light, it indicates that the car is 60 degrees out of time. Idles fine, but when you give it some revs, it backfires slightly out the carbs sometimes. Try to drive it and give it load, and it will just stall out. The revs also hang, but there aren't any intake leaks. Checked that with some carby cleaner
Tried to adjust the timing, by rotating the distributor, to get it to 8 degrees and when doing so, it slows and begins to stall around 50-40 degrees.
What I have done:
firing order is 1342.
points gap is around 0.4mm
checked cyl #1 is firing via the inlet rocker
turned the crank to 10 degrees BTDC on the cam cover
turned ignition on, moved the dizzy back and forth so that the points just spark
where ever the points are sparking, set that to cyl #1
checked firing order again.
Things to note: I have not properly tuned my carbs. The 5k is running the stock 4k dizzy and coil. New cap, leads and NGK BP5EY plugs.
What am I missing here?
Kind regards