Kevin, Congratulations! Come to find out, at a late stage of life, I'm dyslexic. I feel your pain, once that little fact was explained a very few years ago, all I could say was....Yelp. On firing orders, anytime a friend asks for help getting a rig running right after they've worked on it, first thing I do is pull all the plug wires from the distributor cap, pull number 1 plug, find TDC, and following the firing order wire the cap. There's always lots of conversation on how they've already done that. Occasionally it really is the firing order that was mysteriously out of wack. Would love to see your rig and see the modded 216 in action.
RonR