FItech timing control disaster

Yep, running timing control.
I use a stock distributor even though fitech says not to. I checked my phasing with a drilled cap and timing light and the tip is about centered when idling at 18deg.

I stabbed in my distributor with the rotor pointed near number one and twisted in just a little advance. I set all my timing values (all of them) to 15 degrees, including the base dist degrees. Then I got it fired (first time I was 180 off) and pulled the revs up off idle (about 1100) then set my timing to 15 degrees on the balancer and then locked it down. My dist is of course locked out.

From there I setup my curve (18 idle, 23 initial, 32 all in, 35 for low lap at 1100 and 45 for the other two low map settings) and it runs awesome.

From playing with it, it cannot run the timing below the value set in the base degrees value. You want your idle timing 2-3 degrees above the base because the ecu will vary the timing to smooth the idle.

The VR advance at 4k is odd. It was at 17 degrees or so in the stock calibration, but I typically wind up less than 4 but the result isn't far off from the default setting.. So who knows? But it definitely helps to set it proper to avoid retard at rpm.