Timing problem

finally got it sorted out.

The timing is set at 8°
Vacuum is 19.5
Idle at 700. Drops into gear at 600.
Does this sound right.

I hate to say what it was. Because I was told to check for vacuum leaks.
We kept messing with the timing until we started looking at the carburetor. All the timing marks showed up fine and the balancer and chain was spot on with no variation or looseness on the timing marks. The dead time ended up being perfect.

My buddy started messing with the accelerator pump. Pushing up a little manually. It gave it a more steady stream of gas than the pedal did. The pedal just shot fuel in there.
It wouldn't run without me pumping gas into it to compensate for all the extra air anyway. The accelerator pump showed more of what was going on by adding just enough gas. We wondered if the idle jets were flowing at all.

We looked at it for a few minutes and said......it's fuel starved.
I took the float bowl and main metering block off with the carburetor on the car......checked all the passages. It was all clean. Way more clean than expected. The power valve says 6.5

Sat there staring at it. Looked down at the the carburetor base and saw that the plastic nipple on the largest vacuum port on the side of the carb base was gone. It had fallen off and I didn't notice. I didn't even look at it because I knew I had plugged them all. It was a massive vacuum leak. The plastic nipples are not as tight but so last longer as the rubber ones dry out. Basically it was a fluke. I messed with the timing on a running car. Not knowing this vacuum nipple had fallen off.

It was still backfiring out the intake in true top dead center due to this leak. I still had to move it counterclockwise to get it to start. I've got to go through the logic on that one. It acted advanced when it was retarded and retarded when it was advanced.

It was getting too much air. Moving the timing must have compensated for it and made it run but not idle.

I blocked off the port in about ten seconds. Put the metering and float bowl back on and knew the problem was solved. Then just confidently started timing and adjusting.

Now that it's running right and I know there are no problems I'll go ahead and put the electronic distributor on. Last time I tried.......even with new box I could not get it to fire. I'm not very good at diagnosing carbureted.

What I'm going to do is go back through these posts and mess with it with all this information. Timing it with dwell and points adjust.
Making a piston stop and checking the timing mark for knowledge sake. Learning total timing. All of this stuff. I appreciate your patience and time in helping me with this.

It's still confusing but it is fixed.

One other thing........my oil pressure warmed up at idle is at 20psi.
Is this low?