Quote: Mark I don't see or remember seeing anything about this ...
You have a stock point distributor wit ha pertronics installed , correct ? Have you made any changes it to it to limit mechanical advance ? If the answer is no you want to keep your initial timing to no more than 5 degrees because the distributor has too much mechanical advance in it ....
This of course is after you figure out the cam timing issue .
Yeah, stock distributor with pertronix ignitor installed... I have not changed anything else within the distributor. Ain't no way it would idle at anything close to 5 degrees unless something drastic changes
how about a SBC swap? LOL
Mark , stock distributors have 30-32 degrees of mechanical advance , you can't set initial to anymore than 5 or it's going to ping like crazy.
That's just a stock replacement set , not guarantee it's dots are correct, borrow a degree wheel and check it .