its good that it runs well now but ,18 degrees seems like alot of timing for a stock 340 cam on a 114 lsa.do yo trust the mark on the balancer to be correct?
Yeah, thats exactly what I thought also, 18 is a lot, but I degreed the cam, and checked the balancer for TDC, when I assemble the motor. Also swapped dist. when I was trouble shooting. It seems that this a common problem, because of the other posts that I've seen??? I would have never thought of advancing it that much.
Normally I use a MP dist and set it @ 35 total @ 2400 RPMS's and don't worry about initial timing. But with this being a stock motor and dist, I set it at intial.