Originally Posted by roadkill2
The problem with the starting retard is nothing more than a problem with the little distributor cap . . When you retard the timing to start it fires back to the last (instead of the right one) wire . . Use an adaptor and a big Ford cap and rotor and you don't have the "cross fire" problem and your BBC will start just like a small block with 8° of lead . .
Anyway, that's what we do . .
I used the small cap for a year or so. Was scared to death to use it with nos so I finally swapped it out.
MSD calls it a Cap A Dapt. You will have to pull the dist. out and reset it on #1. I wish I had swapped mine a long time ago!!