Oh Ok. I was going by the "kick back method" on the starter and then backing off a few degrees. What should I set the initial to? It fires right up cold.
Thats ok,
You we're just doing what is preached on here all the time. Mostly that works on bigger cams, and loose convertors.
Heres my formula for a suggested initial timing;
Take your cam size as measured at .050. In your case 223. Drop the 1st digit, so thats now 23. take 40% of that; that would be 9. Add that to a basic 5 , and the result is 14. So 14 degrees is the target for your set up.See post #14
If you had a 240 cam, it would be 19*. A 250 cam would be 25*. These are targets.
