Hard Starting After Warmed Up.....Arrrg

Hi Guys, first off I want to apologize for being a little pissed last night. Life is kinda difficult right now, so bare with me. I do appreciate all the help and I don't post too often , as I don't like to re-hash something that has been brought up a million times (i.e. timing). I do look at old threads alot before I will ask a question that I can't seem to get quite right in my head. I got the timing thing down pretty well now.

I did get the "timing" set correct today with a lil help from Rusty Rat Rod. He explained over the phone what I was misinterpreting.
Car is all in at 3000 @ 34°, with the initial set at 14°-15°. I did go to 18° with around 36°-37° but she pinged a bit on the pull on an incline.
I set her back and she runs purdy good now for a fairly stock teen.

In regards to the "heat" (hard starting issue), the timing helped alot, but still no cigar.
I did do a little test and if I keep the big *** 14" drop base steel air cleaner off the carb, it makes a fair difference. It appears that air cleaner is a heat holding hog. Not that I will drive the car without an air cleaner, but that heat hog has to go...LOL
I think I am going fab one up at our machine shop and use a smaller diameter K&N filter, with some external air feed. A snorkel scoop would be nice, but that ain't in our budget nowadays.
But... all in all she runs better and does start "ok" after she's hot. I ain't gonna get too excited over the heat thing at this point in time, as I have a fresh 360 in Georgia that's going in the car in the winter sometime. I'll make all final changes when it goes in.

Thanks again for the help and thanks to those with respect to my wife. We appreciate it.