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When you say nothing, you mean the motor spins with no compression?

If thats the case your timing chain is off or you have too much preload, or the base circle of your cam is different than stock.

Try backing your rocker arms out a bit where they are just loose and see if when you crank it over you get compression but dont start it.

 

dude mine did the same thing i had a ground come un done on back of my driver side head, if the fuel pump aint cutting and gas needle isnt workin then that is what it is

 

My friend had the same problem... His car would just backfire and not start. turned out his pushrods were .025 to long

 

sounds like stated above that MAYBE the crank and timing gear are not aligned right.

But as you stated, you hate to go in there and find out it is not.

Have you doubled check everything else? And the dot to dot is the last thing.

 

im using the ones provided with the rocker kit, the fuel pump is cutting off, i dont think its a ground. im gonna check the rockers.

 

ok i think it wa the preload. i backed off the rockers 1/2-3/4 of a turn and the starter actually has to work now.

 

Saw your other thread, your preload is fine but you probably didn't get the zero lash condition correct. A lot of people make this mistake, how did you get to zero lash? According to my calcs, you have 0.080" preload on your lifters so you are fine. The question, 0.080 from zero lash or some other preload.