George Jets said

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.

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Righty Tighty said

Thanks for catching that! Maybe dot to dot is a chevy thing?

And touching back on the springs, I'm concerned that stock springs would bind. The cam I have has .454/.475 lift, and when I tried the Comp 901 springs, they were binding at the machine shop when he was checking for installed height. I had to go with taller springs.

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