Setting the timing on a 69 318

Kind of a slippery slope talking about the CAP specs. Unless his car was built in LA and still has the original distributor, let's not get side tracked. The CAP specs were just for emissions and made the cars run like crap. LOL
I forgot to mention i’m also Running electronic inigtion and a Mopar chrome box with a Mopar performance distributor. To answer one question it is setting at the first hash past the middle on the gauge and stays there all the time. I remember when we first started the motor up and the engine builder was setting the timing that gauge was showing a lot cooler with some of the setting he was playing with. I think the only reason he set it at zero because I told him that’s what I thought was the stock setting. So maybe I was wrong
Pat