Need input from big cam users.
1 what is the cranking compression? A purple
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2 Google vacuum; fast movement starts at a leak, or carb internal-listen to Cracked. Power valves can drive you insane..
3 Make sure mech advance not fluttering around.
If you have a steady rev, and vac gauge bouncing- look at the valves. Engine is seeing a wrong signal to the intake. Hard to put it in words, something else is making vac erractic (at steady revs).