Victory turned to defeat.
Got everything assembled. Went to start it, acted like it was 180 out (shotgun blasts out the tail pipes) pulled distributor switched it 180* turned motor over a few times trying to get timing to where it needs to be to start it and then starter started doing this.....
Motor turns over by hand still. But the starter just spins and spins and never grabs except very randomly and only for 1/4 second at a time. Sigh...