Camshaft question

Not sure, I haven’t put a light on it yet, because it has a fluid dampened balancer, so I want to determine if marks are correct (?). I have played with the timing just by advancing and retarding , then driving, I know that isn’t correct, but just a quick thing! The distributor has been re curved and the vacuum advance is not hooked to a vacuum line, so I need to figure out where to start with all of this!

Leave the vac advance unhooked for now. It will only complicate things.

I run a fluid dampner. Get yourself a timing tape, verify TDC and apply it. MArk and set total timing to 38 degrees, check inital.

Let us know what happens.