(01-18-2018, 09:29 AM)ScottyB Wrote: yikes man that sucks, but honestly that's pretty awesome you were able to diag the problem and get right to the busted parts straight away vs continuing to run the engine and potentially really tear it up. i wouldn't have thought it would run well at all with the parts swapped into the wrong places like that but i guess its a nice surprise to thing that if it ran that well like that...it might be amazing once its fixed!
Yeah it's just the shafts so the only real difference between right and wrong sides of the engine is how the oiling holes are oriented. I think when I slapped it on with my dad we both assumed there were oiling holes on both sides of the shaft. That's one of the drawbacks to buying all new everything for cars from the 70s. Sometimes you don't get shit for instructions. There's a big notch on the stock shafts to let you know where to place them but this one from Mancini just had a tiny dot punched into the end.
I should be firing it back up this weekend but worse case scenario I'm selling my mountain bike and picking up a roller cam and some assembled aluminium Edelbrock heads if it's still having issues. I still have all the stuff to drop the engine out of the car without much hassle and need to replace the k-member anyways.