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Originally Posted by TAQuest

Dough dude,

Don't think he read the whole thread or the follow up thread after the engine got put in the car. I'm not going back to read all of both...But seems like there was 10° difference in where to set total timing. That's from where it made peak HP to being able to drive it on the street. Those reverse dyno pull numbers also dont tell us how hard the engine was bucking and jumping like it would on the street with a stick shift.

Engine also went in an automatic car with a 3,000ish rpm stall converter. That makes me think twice about how "useable" that low rpm power really was.

About got sea sick watching the 302 video when he was lugging the engine around. Smoothed up a bunch when he actually drove it like them little engines were made to be drove.

The china HEI I've got here was a gimme. I did not buy it.
Centrifugal advance is slow with strong springs and very limited on how far it does advance. Engine tuned to scream has initial timing way too high for it to run smooth at low RPM's. If you just crack the throttle and vacuum advance comes in....Shouldn't need explaining. Pretty much useless for a stick shift street car with an engine like your's. At least how they come out of the box.

Do believe with some distributor work and fine tuning you could get this thing doing better.
Total cure with the Voodoo cam that builds higher cylinder pressure, in an engine that's already got high static compression. Still gonna feel every cylinder hit at low rpm's.

Got more but need coffee
Clay