[Formulajones]

I agree Clay that is generally a safe starting point. Some of these engines however sometimes don't want or need a bunch of initial timing. Since this has modern combustion chambers and tight quench, and enough compression to support the camshaft, it's probably pretty efficient and may not need that much initial.

The fact that Highway knocked it down to 12 and set the idle at a normal setting and stated the noise was somewhat subsided tells me he was likely heading in the right direction and is what I mentioned should have been done about 10 pages ago LOL