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Rough Idle No Rev (Bad Timing?)

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#1 ·
I have a 280zx that I have recently put a megasquirt ecu and harness into becuase I was having electrical problems with the stock harness. It is NA so I swapped the distributor from the stock NA one to the turbo one with cas. I have got the car to start and idle, the idle is a little rough but not terrible however when I try to rev it will not and instead will just start backfiring. Im assuming it is the timing I have tried to time it with a timing light but can seem to get the mark to line up. I put in the oil pump shaft and aligned the dots on it for the distributor timing at tdc. Im assuming this might be off a tooth or two even though I have adjusted it many times, but I was just curious to see if there were any other thought and opions on it. Thank you
 
#2 ·
Call megasquirt. Most of us here have mostly stock EFi systems. The thing with aftermarket EFI systems on Z cars is that you really need to know what you are doing and you need to have a GOOD tuner to get it dialed in.
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