degreeing cam

keep reading up on it over and over as it is a confusing subject & when you grasp it it's fairly simple but you wont believe that till you get there but you will. If the intake cam lobe "peak" reaches max lift at only 104 degrees past TDC as opposed to a bit later at say 108 degrees then the 104 position is more "advanced", hope that helps. As said LCA is how far an intake peak and an exhaust peak are away from each other on the stick & that is in cam degrees and adv/ret (cam phasing in relation to crank position) which you change with the timing gears is in crank degrees, as said it ain't easy (till you get there), took me a month of reading!