Yes, another timing question!

OldmanRick said
More info. will help. What is your vacuum at idle and what is your idle speed. This will give a indication of how much cam you actually have. Also, what stall speed is your converter and what rear gear are you running. Your timing at this point is pretty close so these questions may give a better idea of where to tune next.

Idle speed is 950, converter is a Hughs 2500 stall, rear gears are 4:10. At idle I had around 5" of vacuum. When I hooked up a the guage and gave it more timing, the engine RPM increased, smoothed out and the vacuum went up to around 11". It sounded so good, I left it there for the moment and checked where the inital was. It was at 30 degrees, which I felt was insanely high. I drove it for just a few minutes and it felt great!! However, I didn't want to burn a valve or something, so I backed it down to 14 degrees initial. If it's happy with more inital timing, let's say 22 degrees, then I will have to just limit the amount of mechanical at the distributor.