Just a little miffed...

that seems to be a huge gray zone with the ported or manifold vacuum and the timing settings being at 50 something cruising. ive tried running it without the vac adv, its a dog off idle and runs pretty hot (211-214). my trucks the same way, my cordoba (400) was the same way. Mileage gains were slim, but driveability running the vac adv was very noticeable, for the better. I was involved in a thread a while ago where this same issue came up, and i was horrendously wrong on a couple things, but Demon 408 posted them, here they are: http://www.camaros.org/pdf/timing101.pdf
and http://www.diamondbackengines.com/te.../ignition-101/
So not to raise hate and discontent, but what do you guys run for timing? in the means of using the vacuum pod or not, static timing, mechanical advance....