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Also check for a neutral safety wire that runs from the transmission to the starter relay, bypass it to ground to troubleshoot it.

Update..after taking the dart out and standing on the gas somewhere around 4000rpm it had a really bad high rpm miss. That quickly verified that my timing readings were wrong(too much mechanical) turns out my aging dial timing light has issues. I purchased a new digital timing light and a...

This same problem for me turned out to be a bad pick up coil as well, so either proper voltage not getting to p.u.coil or its bad. To replicate, take a running mopar w/elect ign and unhook the p.u.coil wires, crank and let off key. Good luck

and/or a bad reluctor, burned out ammeter/melted or corroded bulkhead connectors etc

There are three possibilities, i have 3 distributors, 1 from each, 72 newport, 74 new yorker and a 77 dodge pickup. Im not real sure which one this is but they were all 400's. What do i need to watch for if somethings not right, pinging?

Wound up to 4k its still at 40 degrees, its stable and maxed from about 2k all the way up, with the knob on my timing light at 40 its dead on zero at the balancer

I read somewhere that a low compression motor liked more advance up to 40ish degrees..was wondering if there was any truth to it, if so I should be ok?

Ive been tuning my motor up, this is a stock 400 with a 270 duration Rv cam, 625 Carter carb headers, the distributor is an original electronic type. The first thing I checked was the rpm for all in timing, it wasn't all in untill over 4k. I took it apart and removed the heavy spring, its now...