Really weird ignition issue...

AJ/FormS said
I have seen distributors, not factory ones, that when you set the static timing to 12*, the rotor-tip is quite far from a tower, and when the advance comes in, the rotor runs away from the correct tower, and the spark goes to the wrong cylinder.

What about a factory distributor with an improperly positioned reluctor wheel?

RustyRatRod said
I think you should rule out everything else first such as the distributor vacuum.

Yeah, you think that I should. Your opinion was considered.

RustyRatRod said
I believe going after rotor phasing "right now" might send you down a rabbit hole. I'm not saying that might not be a problem. I'm just recommending attacking one thing, fixing it and moving on.

I was "attacking one thing", the rotor phasing but you didn't like that I didn't focus on the vacuum advance first.

Kern Dog said
I rechecked the timing and placement of the distributor. Both are where I like them. I was thinking that the vacuum can was too far clockwise which would be expected if the rotor phasing was way off.

It turns out that the rotor wasn't phased correctly as I thought.

RustyRatRod said
I didn't see it either, but I'm gonna let him wallow in it. He just made the list. I'm tire of being ignore and down right argued with just to recommend someone make a COST FREE CHECK on something, so to hell with it.

Here is another angle:

The notch sits 180 degrees from the rotor tip so as you can see, the rotor tip does not line up with the reluctor wheel.
If this doesn't matter, I'd like to know why.
I switched to the other distributor and it runs like it should now. How is that bad?