Stopping the knock: Lower compression and ported heads...

Franken, you may benifit from a timing curve coensiding w manifold vacuum advance. If you run high initial to get it snappy off idle, limit your total mechanical to +10 then the vac adv at part throttle will improve torque at part throttle and remove its advance under hard throttle. Don at fbo is a big proponent of this method from what i understand.

and for the most part big motors I set the dizzy for all in by about 500, basically is just a start retard.