we have ignition...sort of

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Well today was the big day, first start-up. The motor is a 351W with ported J302 heads , bill mitchel 750/850 dp holly, victor jr.,A351 cam with crower roller rockers, milodon cobra road race pan, and crane hi6 and coil.I knew I'd have no one to blame but myself if things went south since I built it from a bare block in the garage. Well it fired up with some difficulty but smoothed out after a bit, but the leaks were huge The freeze plug under#6 squirts a stream like a groove exists in the plug or the block and within a minute or two water poured out of the the overflow even though the temp gauge was still below 200. Oil flowed almost as copiously from around the mech fuel pump and various places on the pan fortunately not the rear main but possibly the pan welds-it is hard to see. A couple of lifters made a racket also. Too much fluid to complete the the break in. Oh yeah, the tach shows no reading, the S.W. tach is supposed to be ground senseing and should work with a cd ign. so now I have to find a way to to test wether the tach or Hi6 is at fault. And to think I was getting depressed because I thought the build was coming to an end