There's not enough vacuum at WOT to get any advance into it that way. I always run ported. Never had issues with kickback or "running hot". Pinging is much more a function of the carb and distributor working together than either one separately creating or stopping it. With the fuels available these days, tuning is a big deal and it's a dying art.

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.