Cold exhaust, hot valve cover.

Whoa, that is alot of initial timing.
Some high performance engines like alot of initial timing around 20-22 * at idle
Normal is more like 12-14* depending on the engine.
Why do you want that much?
1000 rpm is pretty high for a street application, manual or auto tranny?
Sorry I should clarify. I was messing with it a lot to try to learn more about this problem. That was the last setting I had when I gave up. Normally I would have an 800 idle and around 10° advance. I probably should have specified that... oops
It is a 727 auto. High stall converter. I forget exactly what but its somewhere around 3000 stall