New engine gremlins - frustrating

The distributor was removed to assist with install, but was marked prior to remove and reset.
IMHO, that calls for rechecking the timing, especially if there are any questions on performance. It does not take much movement (like the width of a mark) to move the timing several degrees with any distributor; a 'hard to see' 2 degree change in distributor position would give 4 degrees of change in timing. It just seems like common sense to recheck this in detail with the symptoms.