318 LA rebuild after losing a valve seat

Righty Tighty said

Rods are back from the shop and all is well. Pistons, cam, and timing set installed. Measured bore and depth of the cylinders to calculate compression ratio while I wait for the timing cover gasket to arrive. Also drilled out one of the cam thrust plate bolts to give it the oiling hole it needed.View attachment 1715478651 View attachment 1715478652 View attachment 1715478653 View attachment 1715478658 Gonna hit up some engine shops tomorrow to see if they have any junk solid lifters I can have to check piston to valve clearance, since I’ll be using hydraulic lifters.

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I see you are Dot to Dot on your timing gear line up at 6:00 o'clock on the cam gear and 12:00 o" clock on the crank gear.

You are going to want to roll it over until your cam gear is at 12:00 o'clock and your crank gear is at 12:00 o'clock so when you drop in your distributor it will fire at top dead center on compression stroke on #1. You line up the 2 dots with a 12" ruler straight edge.

Right now at dot to dot, 6 cam to 12 crank . . You are 180° off for dropping in the distributor, it will be firing TDC on cylinder #6.

That is just the way it works on the mopar small blocks.