So after many many hours of trying to get this engine to start we figured it out the other night. Although we had checked that #1 on the cap was indeed #1 TDC, we decided to try it 180 degrees from where we were. Rather than pull the distributor we decided to just re-orient the plug wires on the cap. So as my friend is reinstalling the wires I noticed that he was putting them on 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2, but he started at #1 and went counter clockwise! Since we were both very fluent with chevy firing orders and neither of us were noobs with engines I never doubted what he was doing. Somehow he just went backwards, and as soon as I questioned the way he was installing them he immediately realized the mistake. Consistently, every time he reinstalled the wires, they were in the wrong direction! After correcting the firing order, it started up instantly.
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