440 tunnel ram

Garrett Ellison said

E is cast crank, starting in '73 or '74, don't remember right off. The T designation began in 1976, (my guess is for Trenton) All big blocks B or RB from 76 on began with year followed by T. You can faintly make out 7 in front of 9 before the T. 43 degrees total advance seems a little high to me, even for a low compression open chamber engine with the piston way down in the hole. Your compression readings are within 10 percent of one another. Do you know the history of the engine and what it came out of?

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Dont know any history of engine other then was in a ford capri before hand bit what it originally come out of i have no idea.

Initial timing could be as love as 13° as have moved dizzy but 12° was markes from inital setting up. Was about to put timing light on car when a freeze plug split dumming all the coolant. On another note someone said to me old timing lights dont like multi spark is this correct and im i best off buying msd timing light

So how to i work out best head and cam combo for engine or am i best stripping engine down seeing engine condition first.