TIMING procedure

[mrnickleye]

Originally Posted by skunk

Actually I was 180 out after the head gasket job I did, it will run fine, it's just the coils on top will run 2 to the 6 plugs rather than the three. when I adjusted my timing to the right setting I actually lost a little bit of power, sence i was no longer at 15 degrees. The dealership said they have seen it before

What the hell are you talking about???
WE are talking about a N/A car with a distributor. ONE coil.

If the distributor is installed 180* out, the car will NOT run (unless you erroneously put the spark plug wires into the wrong places in the distributor cap to compensate for the error of 180* out).