Where's the Wow?

Freezerman said

I have a new balancer with degrees on it arriving on Wednesday. Pending work tonight I am going to reconfirm TDC with a piston stop. Then work on redoing cam degreeing with a wheel. If I understand correctly RRR is recommending 6 degrees advance on the cam?

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No. I am recommending installing it 8-10 degrees advanced. Somewhere around 102-100 ICL.

That cam is pretty big for such a low compression engine. That's what no one is getting. It will be perfectly fine advance down that far. It will bring back a LOT of bottom end torque and jack the cylinder pressure up. I always use a compression gauge in conjunction with a degree wheel. That way, I can be sure the cylinder pressure isn't too high when I am done.

Degree it where the card says. Run a compression test. See where it is. If it's not 170-180 or so, advance it 2 more degrees. Run another compression test. Get it?