this goes back to the megasquirt thing again.
I indexed the distributor like it says to and got it to give actual timing finally vs what it thought it was.

but the angle it is sitting at is bad for the software.
anything between 15-50 is bad according to the book.
I understand now, but it didn't explain. basically anything in the range that it might have to fire off for timing cannot be handled by the software because it cannot fire anything before it gets the signal.
it has a 5 degree delay so anything in that range is going to be 5 degrees less as well.

but anything over 90 degrees is a no go as well. Since obviously it cannot know it is going against a different tower on the distributor cap.

I am at 28 degrees right now. 1 more post over puts me at 118. one post less and I get into -72.

If the shaft was indexed differently I might be able to find one that splits the difference.

I asked in another post about changing the slot orientation.
I think that might be my solution, depending on how much it is adjustible.

If I can split the rotor between two posts moving over 1, I might be able to get somewhere into the 60's in the degrees and make it all finally work.