Well,that's disappointing. Actually, you're the first person I've read about who's had bad luck with it.

According to Ehrenberg, my distributor should give about 26 degrees total, all in by 2500 rpm. I'll talk to the distributor guy tomorrow about restricting it to something closer to 18 total - or maybe I'll try to get a 9 degree plate. That way, i could set initial to 14-18, and still stay under 34-36 total.

I don't know that I'm going to go to the trouble of switching out my head gaskets. It depends on what I can achieve by playing with the timing.