340 Initial timing questions

Bit of an overview:
Before picking the cam I did talk with, and get reccommendations from, Mike Jones, Dwayne Porter, Mike at B3, Howards, and with Steve Slavik at Lunati. (Initial design on the Voodoo cams was done by Ultradyne Harold and I liked that idea of using his lobes.) And I am getting enough vacuum to run my power brakes just fine.

Because my heads had a bunch of porting done to them i did pick a higher lift cam than some guys offered as I'd never felt I was using their potential. Went with solid as they tend work better if you don't mind setting lash. But I did compare all the exh. closing angles, overlap #s, etc. I just know it's a big improvement!

Yes I stayed with the old forged TRW's because my compression was even before, the bores/moly rings were in great shape. My open chamber iron X heads cc'd at 63, so they had been worked on there as well. To check exhaust valve to piston clearance I did clay, but then did put in hardware store springs and a dial indicator on it later. Exhaust to piston is 0.105" Close enough!

I am running one of the new Edelbrock 650 AVS2 with the annular boosters, LD340, and headers into 2-1/2" with Magnaflows. Cam is rated 2400-6600 but pulls nicely from just over 2000. Pretty wide torque and power curve.

I'll play with timing a bit more, maybe, but 22-34 works. I have an A/F meter on it so getting the mix dialed in is pretty easy, but am watching the plugs to see if they agree.
All in all, pretty pleased.

I love the threads on this site as there is so much knowledge (and a wealth of opinions!) that helps get things sorted.