OK!! The Bro-in-Law came out today for my daughter's first birthday party...so naturally we did some more Chally trouble shooting. With a fresh look, and a lot of tinkering, he noticed that there was proper voltage to the alternator and battery with key both on and off position. However, there was low current to the coil, and so we (he) found an odd wire that was piggy-backed onto the wire to the coil ground terminal. We simply snipped the wire (a l'il blue plastic connector with 2 sides to connect 2 wires together) and VOILA!!! The motor started!!! ok, it ran to about 7K RPM...but it IS a new carb and I'll need to 'dial it in'/tune it. When the car started, with the new intake/carb set-up, it literally shook the windows! It will be sometime tomorrow night after the carb/intake gasket sealant cures, then it's a night of carb tuning...and then STREET DOMINATION!
There is a shop in town with a chassis dyno, so I'm gunna see about making a few passes to see how much power I'm gettin to her.
I'd like to thank everybody who tried to help me diagnose this problem, and who knew it was something so stupid as a piggy-backed wire?? I dunno what it was for or where it went, since it disappears into a mass of electrical tape wrapped around a rats nest of wiring. So...if the analog clock aint workin tomorrow, I won't care!
