ok, i finally got a new distributor in, this being the sixth one that ive ordered. Four were wrong and one reman that kept giving me a code 8. So i put the new one on and put the timing light on it for the first time in awhile and even at the most retarded position it was still a couple degrees advanced. checked the cam timing and it seemed good. so i took it out for a drive and it was fine until i got on it. i would miss and cut out above 5k and it would then show a code. i checked it and it was a code 9. So with the reman it kept showing code 8 and this one shows code 9. But the odd thing is that once the CEL comes on it will rev smoothly throughout the whole band. Im just kind of lost on why its doing this.