Ok, So I just finished doing head gaskets, and replacing practically my entire cooling system on my 89 subaru loyale.

It's a 4wd 5 speed manual SPFI EA82 https://speedtest.vet/ https://vidmate.bid/.

upon trying to start it again it will crank and occasionally putter to life if I press the gas pedal to the floor, but it never truly fires up. When it tries there is occasionally a large kick and it dies immediately after. My thoughts are that I have my distributor and camshafts operating exactly opposite from one another but I'm not sure.

Has anyone experienced this before or have any tips as to what it might be?

Edited December 14, 20214 yr by Jusmanak

Double check the timing pulley positions.  With the flywheel on the middle of the 3 lines, one cam timing mark should be up, one should be down.

rather than us try to guess how you got yourself here, can you pull the  two outer front covers of the timing belts, find TDC of #1, likely best with only #1 spark plug in, the others out, so you can easily feel compression stroke coming up, look at flywheel to get it on TDC ZERO, show us where rotor button points and how the cam wheels markings appear