I'm going to throw out what I found on my setup, and hopefully other people can confirm/deny what I've found. I don't want to drill/cut a hole in the cap to use a timing light, so I checked by eyeball and used the marks on my balancer. Zero was confirmed as TDC when I degreed my cam.
I started by marking the positions of the posts for cylinder 1 and 2 on the outside of the distributor body.
It looks like I might have mistimed the distributor when I stuck it. The Edelbrock addendum wants to see 12deg of advance "built in" by having the motor at 12° and then sticking the distributor in with the rotor at 0 and the hall effect right on the t short tooth.
When at TDC rotor was right at #1, so already not ideal. Every degree of advance moves it further back away from the post.
There's a 45 deg arc between any two posts on the cap (360/8=45). Rolling the motor to 15° btdc the rotor is approx 7.5° away from the #1 post. Rolling it to 35° btdc it's approx 15° away from the #1 post.
So, all in all, on my setup, it's not ideal, but it's unlikely that there would an accidental firing of cyl #2 instead of #1. I'm going to try advancing the rotor to place it as close to #1 when when running 25° of advance, or as much as the rotor adjustment will allow.
I'd like to see what others have on their setups, to confirm if they're seeing something similar.
