You guys are a big help and I will bring you up to date. I got her running today for about a half an hour. The engine just died and wouldn't start again. It could be fuel as I was feeding out of a 5 gal. can. Will give another try tomarrow. I read all of your suggestions and proceeded as follows. Added another ground cable to engine to body. Pulled spark plugs, wiped clean, checked gap and torqued to 18#. Pulled carb and changed power valve, charged new battery to 6.45 volts. Tried start and noticed the starter seemed faster and finally had engine catch, amen. Engine sounded good after it warmed up.Idle screws now respond and spark looked very good. When engine died, I have had this happen before and always figured it was fuel problem but now think I may have coil braking down as spark looked bad. Jake checked coil when he set up distributor before and now awaiting his hot spark relay for starting. Am not home yet but the V12 was music to my ears today. I will keep you posted. THX again.