IT STARTS!!! Jan 4, 2013

Previously I have confirmed that the injectors were now working after I rearranged the battery poles. We were able to test the working of each injector by grounding each one and listening for the "click" sound. All seem to be working except number 5. We pulled out some of the injectors still attached to the fuel and cranked the motor and they were squirting fuel- although not in mist, more like a squirt. So I pulled all the injectors and sat them in injector cleaner overnight. When I put them back in we cranked the car with a few of the injectors out and they seemed to mist more this time. So I had fuel and spark but not ignition at this point. It would backfire a few times but never really start so my timing must be off.

To check where my timing was I took the cam cover off and looked at where the valves were and I rotated the engine with the starter until based on the position of the valves I knew that cylinder one was at TDC. I then checked the crankshaft pull and saw that there was a mark on the pulley and it was close to the advance/retard degree markings. I then realized that my distributer cap was on 180 degrees in reverse and that I needed to turn it around so that spark plug one position was right. I then rearranged all the spark plug wires and put the cap back on. I put the cam cover back on and the car started up almost immediately!

For the first few minutes as the car warmed up I couldn't take my foot off the clutch or else it would stall. However once it got going I could and let it sit and idle.