Timing problem

Car still won't work right.


It doesn't make any sense. Not to me anyway.
Here's why


When I set the timing to 0° or 10°
It's advanced heavily

I retarded it 10°......it's advanced heavily and backfiring out the intake.

The advance nipple is parallel to the firewall. The number 1 is right in front of the distributor. No angle.



We then turned it a lot. Counter clockwise. Like 45° and it at least ran some. Feathering the throttle kept it running. It would not idle.



This car ran with this Holley and bad gas.
It had 11" vacuum and the carb was tuned at idle to get max vacuum. I thought the vac might have been low because of the timing with the carb I just put on. A used Holley 600.

So I loosened the distributor thinking it would be easy to time and that when the trouble started. The bad gas was not old gas.

It was new gas put into the tank that was contaminated by the dried up gas. Might be why it ran at all.

At this point I'm a little frustrated with it.

When I set the timing mark to zero......the piston is at tdc visually.