Quote Originally Posted by SHOWTYPE5
Your tach reads from the distributor......I may have a distributor we could try and see if it will fix the problem.....
seriously?

Quote Originally Posted by Captain-Obvious™
car sputters when given gas...

tach needle jumps around 2-3 hundred rpms but the actual engine rpms aren't fluctuating

(needle is reading incorrectly)

I am thinking it is a distributor problem being as the tach runs off the dizzy and I pretty sure the car would sputter if it was getting bad spark