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So I was playing with the timing the other night, and I forgot to hook up the vacuum advance. The car seemed to run the same, but without the problems of it pinging when I get on it. I set the initial timing at about 12*. I still don't know what and when the total timing is and when it is in.


With that cam you don't even need a vacuum advance. I wouldn't worry about initial and have 38* full at 2600rpm. As mentioned before no matter what you do, if you don't have good compression, 3000 stall and 3.91's or better the car is going to be slow out of the hole.
Change the PV, drill the throttle plates and re-curve the distrib, set your timing and let us know how it goes.