72 360 first start question

ok so here's my new question, regardless of wether the dampener set at zero or 15 or 30, Am i meant to point the rotor at the tooth that is approaching #1 cylinder ) basically (#3CYLINDER) or directly at the #1? If I'm directly at #1 with the dampener at 15 deg. it doesn't wanna run that well. but pointing at #3 approaching #1 it wants to run all day.

I didn't go back and look, what distributor are you running.

IF it's aftermarket, some of them have the drive tab and rotor clocked differently than a factory unit.