What did I do? Help?

Try this;
Disconnect the VA,
hook up your timing light.
Rev it up to 4000 and set the timing to ~ 34/35 degrees.
Let it return to idle, less than 800rpm; and read the Idle-Timing.
finally, hook the VA back up, and once more, read the the timing.
That would make me pucker......4k with no load:eek: