Hello people,
just when I was really beginnng to enjoy the real smooth ride of my car, after replacing a slighly faulty fuel distributor I get this today after work. I got into the car to try start it up and it doesn't start with the first crank, I try again and nothing I try the third time and give it a little gas, and I hear a small pop, and see a small cloud of smoke coming out of the hood closer to the drivers side. I immediately open the hood notice nothing unusual, I wait a few seconds and try again and sure enough she starts up, but running terrible, ( mean terrible.) the economy gauge is almost at the end on the red side, the oil pressure is all over the place and the car is really shacking at idle. I decided I was going to try and limp home so I do. But what a ride home terrible. Here is what I noticed past about 45mph the car runs fine, anything slower than that I get some major hesitation when I accelerate.

I checked the infamous L vacuum connection close to firewall and it looks good.

The car was running really smooth before, I doubt it is the spark plugs or anything like that. In the recent past the following have been replaced.

Fuel distributor
fuel filter
spark plugs
ignition rotor
distributor cap
ignition wires
Entire intake was R&R'd.

I just don't know what to make out of this. I will point out though that it hadn't started up at the first crank 2-3 times before, it kind of started tach would go up as if it fired then would go down immediately. would start immediately at the second crank.

Help me guys!! When I say it is terrible I mean terrible especially at idle and when accelerating.

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