Gunner Asch wrote:

None of my timing lights works on 6vts.

6 volts? SIX VOLTS?????
Oh, MY, that might explain a lot. I slapped that 350 engine into my
insane VW Beetle hybrid car project and hooked it up to one battery and
tried to run it on 12 Volts! Maybe that's why it didn't run so well. I
was pretty sure I had checked the Clymer's (or whatever) manual and
verified the right battery voltage.

If you have an inductive timing light, it doesn't have to run off the
same power as the engine.

Jon