I got the oil sprocket turned back a tooth, and the engine fires up just fine. Excellent. It took me a while to get it started, since the car has sat since the middle of November, but it looks like I've got the timing squared away.

Here's a video of the engine running on youtube:



I still need to fab up the throttle cable. I bought a stock throttle linkage setup, but it turns out that switching to a cable setup makes more sense with the SU carbs. I took the cable wheel off of my old 200sx intake and simply welded it onto the stock primary throttle linkage.