engine miss

[Jim Dandy]

Ok, Let me go through this. I was adjusting the timing on the engine. I set the advance at 12 degrees initial. I started the motor and as I was manually working the throttle I noticed the dist. was wobbling a little so I thought aha, I have found the problem. So I bought a refurb dist. The wobbling stopped but still had a miss. I took the dist. apart and found the advance weights were way to big(40 degrees advance). I changed the weights to 20 degrees plus the intial
12 so I would have 32 degrees total. Took the car out and jumped on it. Run like a scalded rat but at high RPM misses still. The car seems to lope at lower RPM. So I bought new wires (Ford Racing 9mm), a new MSD dist, cap and rotor. Same thing happens. Maybe I got a bad Dist? I did not change the plugs. I guess I'll try that next. Just thought it might be a bent push rod. I think the miss is there at lower RPM but just not as noticible. I don't know the cam profile but it is fairly mild. The carb is an edelbrock 650 that I recently rebuilt recently. Hope someone out there is smarter than me (not hard to do).