Street Demon tuning experience

I don't care what "experts" say. Locking out a distributor for a street car is nonsense. I wouldn't even do it on a race only car. When I busted off the slant 6 in Vixen for the first time, she had about 45 degrees initial timing, but it didn't touch it until the cam and lifters were broken it. It ran just dreadful. Once broken in, I backed it down to about 19 initial and worked from there. There's just no reason for initial timing that high.