StI'll having ignition problems :(

[Redassassin]

Sadly that wasn't the issue,  it seems that it was starting fine for a couple of days because it was parked up for 2 weeks I've also had a new issue come up now though in addition to the starter issue, the car is missing and backfiring like nobodies business, it has a dellorto dhla 40 on it, what's really weird is when taking off the spark leads for cylinders 2 and 3 there's no change in the way the engine runs but 1 and 4 cause the engine to chug as it should, it's got me stumped, but I'm thinking this and the starter issue may go hand in hand?

[avengertiger]

is it a timing issue have you checked the timing to make sure all is ok

[Redassassin]

Retarded the timing, it's definitely not that, but I have a theory. When I took the Cylinder head off this car to swap out the lumpy cam it had for a stock one, I initially put the head gasket on the wrong way around  , then torqued the head up and ran the car to find oil pissing out the side of the head/block mating surface. Took the head back off and just swapped the head gasket around to the correct orientation and retorqued the head. But thats not all, I then didn't retorque the head and proceeded to drive the car around for a month before finally retorquing the head, it needed doing. So I think my negligence/laziness may have stuffed the head gasket, so I got a new head set from Repco and am going to redo the head gasket this Tuesday, Even if its not the head gasket I want to do it as I don't trust the current head gasket and it will eliminate it as a possible factor.

[zenithman]

My Avenger was always flattening batteries and ignition was varied. The ballast resistor was allways heating up like a toaster, but several people told me this was normal. After adjusting timing and valve clearence, and tuning the carburetor til I got blue in the face I started looking for a new ignition module. The new module solved all my troubles.