It was great talking to you on the landline yesterday, Ray. The Mallory spring kit from Summit is supposed to arrive today. Also, I've got to go to the hardware store and buy a No. 20 Torx screwdriver. Those centrifugal advance bolts are larger than Torx 15 but smaller than a Torx 25, so I figure they must be a #20, which is a bit of an unusual size, in my experience.
My vacuum advance canister is marked "8.5", which means it gives a total of 17 degrees of advance at the crank, right?
OMG, I think that until now maybe I have been running a total advance of 28 degrees centrifugal (centrifugal advance bolts all the way to the left end of their slots), 17 degrees of vacuum and 10 initial, for a total of 55!!
But it didn't look like that much with a timing light on the damper; honest!
So do you agree or disagree with the following: say I want to limit total advance to 32 degrees. That means I need to lose 23 degrees of total advance somewhere, and the only place to get rid of it is the centrifugal advance slots, so I need to eliminate about 3/4 of my centrifugal advance.
Of course my mentor halifaxhops said to get rid of only about 1/3 of it, so I'm going to try that first and see how it works.