sounds like a rebuild problem to me, that's terrible oil pressure for a sbc, and the compression should be almost identical every cylinder on an engine just broken in ... and what do you mean the timing "jumps between 2 different amounts"? should normally be set at 8-10 with vacuum advance plugged

Bill


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