LA Engine Build - Where / How to Line up the Dist / Oil Pump Drive gear?

No...the distributor is not 180 out....is the engine on TDC No. 1 firing?.....if it is and you point the rotor towards no 1 on the cap...it will fire...

that slot will point towards that intake bolt hole whether the engine is TDC No. 1 firing or...on No. 6 firing...the slot does not know the difference....

just remember a piston is at tdc twice...but only firing once ...the other time it is on the exhaust stroke...