Missing at cruise. 5

Rusty,
I am working on the toilet situation.....

All jokes aside, I doubt anybody would call a 254/260 @ 050 cam in a 408 engine 'short cammed'.
So here is a comment from somebody better known than me:
' The optimum idle advance is typically 35-40* for a short cammed street engine & [ though not commonly realized ] as much as 50* for a street/strip engine'.
- The above comment comes from David Vizard, p. 30 of his Holley book.
- Hmm, talking about timing in a carb book. And, he does it more than once throughout this book, p. 47: ' With some lean burn tests, the timing for 60 mph cruise is as far advanced as 55*.
- The fact that the carb in this case was just 'bolted on' with such a big cam is another reason to suspect the idle cct needs richening.