What went wrong?, it was running great and then not at all Options

[Type 47]

so we put the original 62k engine back in that had not had the distributor removed. Adjusted the valves (again after we put about 10 miles on it) we rebuilt the Webbers and it fired up. We did some timing and tweaking on the carbs.

It ran OK but a little shy of perfect. I replaced the wires and it seemed to improve it but idled a little high around 1,200.

My son came over to work on it the next day, but I wasn't home. All of a sudden, it won't even run.

we swapped distributers (both 009's) with the parts car, then swapped points (adjusted to 0.016). no improvement.

tested spark to all four cylinders. I seems like it's really out of timing but we didn't change it much. (except for the fact that we took the distributor out)

my son says we have spark, too much fuel, and not enough air.

What do we do next?????

[second wind]

I have to share....my '73 2.0 had "spark" but car would not start for weeks....turned out the spark was not strong enough to work under compression. My non- Porsche cousin said in two seconds "replace the coil" so I did and car started right up and I haven't looked back. Now I know a spark may exist but may not be there under compression...have since learned that the hot-rod high compression crowd knows this one already.....keep going!!
gg