Well, I drug home another one
Got home from work and installed the distributor. Jumped the ballast, hooked up some wiring, hillbilly timing taped my balancer, set the base timing to 20 and hit the key. Fired right off and runs so much more crisp. The advance slots welded up and filed to .385 gave me exactly 17 degrees of advance. So initial is 19 and total is 36 all in at 2750. I played with the vacuum advance a bit and delayed it by 4 turns so it doesn’t start adding until ~2400 and 16” and in cruise at 2800 I have 52 degrees. Good starting point to tune from. I’ll have to drive it a bit and see if it takes this much timing this quick on 87 octane.
Got home from work and installed the distributor. Jumped the ballast, hooked up some wiring, hillbilly timing taped my balancer, set the base timing to 20 and hit the key. Fired right off and runs so much more crisp. The advance slots welded up and filed to .385 gave me exactly 17 degrees of advance. So initial is 19 and total is 36 all in at 2750. I played with the vacuum advance a bit and delayed it by 4 turns so it doesn’t start adding until ~2400 and 16” and in cruise at 2800 I have 52 degrees. Good starting point to tune from. I’ll have to drive it a bit and see if it takes this much timing this quick on 87 octane.