Great story Dave! Sounds like the time I switched the cam and heads on my Nova back in High School when I was 17. Spent the whole weekend tearing it down and putting back together so I could drive it to school Monday morning and show off my efforts with a huge burnout leaving the school parking lot Monday afternoon. Once I got it back together though it was popping and sputtering so I'm checking everything twice, like Dave wondering what heck's going on? Everyone knows the firing order is 18436572 so I'm thinking the cam must be off a tooth so I start tearing it down again to figure out what's wrong. Just as I'm about to pull the timing chain cover off, Dad walks up to the car, asks me what's wrong, and about ten seconds later say why don't you try switching #5 and #7 plug wires and walks away. I'm thinking no way, every idiot knows the firing order of a small block Chevy. Sure enough, I change 5 & 7 around and it fires up like a champ and I'm thinking Dad had to have swapped them when I wasn't looking. He didn't, I just missed it and learned one of the hundreds of valuable lessons an old car teaches us. I still get humbled on a daily basis it seems. Stupid cars, I love them!
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