Spark Plug

With your heads you should be able to get 40 or so degrees at a cruise. They probably won’t take much more than that because the chambers are very nice.

That would certainly help at a cruise.
I am certainly not against increasing the cruise timing, but am very concerned about over-timing causing problems. As I've recently read (from another poster) someone ended up with engine damage from over-timing and he reported that he could not hear any detonation.