I made some progress over the weekend. I was able to set the timing to 25* at 1200 RPM and 34* at 1800 rpm. I can idle at 1200 rpms without dying but when I try to lower the idle below that it wants to die.

I put my hand over the center carb and had great suction, the engine would quickly start to die without an increase in RPM's.

Note: with the new Taylor" plug wires the #3 plug boot caught fire at the header. (It was fairly close to the header (TTI's) but not touching.

the #8 wire touched the header and started to toast the shielding.

As I go forward trying to get this from not dying below 1200.

Those of you that have TTI headers, what are you using for plug wires, standoff, wire looms to keep the wires from touching but dressing up the wiring?