New 360 & a couple of questions

For @mopardude318

mopardude318 said

Stock electronic ignition. May go with FBO ignition box after a bit.

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TT5.9mag said

For break in you will have better luck with more timing than less. Set your balancer mark to 15 degrees BTDC.(see note 1) Point the rotor to #1 firing. (see note 2) It will start fine right there. As soon as it fires, get it up to 2500 rpm and with a timing light pull it up to 35-40 degrees. Continue break in. After break in is complete, set the timing where the engine runs best. It will run fine on 87 with no load for break in as long as the gas is fresh.

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@TT5.9mag ;Please forgive me for editing for the newbe.

Edits by AJ;
#1; On the Compression stroke of Cylinder #1.
#2; Push the Vcan towards the firewall as far as it will go, then pull it forward until the nearest reluctor vane aligns with the pole piece of the magnetic pick-up. Now; with a shapie, mark the body of the D where the rotor is pointing, then install the cap. Install the #1 plug wire into the tower above the sharpie mark, then in CW fashion, install the rest of the wires in the correct firing order.
>If the mark you made is NOT under any tower, STOP! Make sure it is within about 1/4 of a tower's separation distance, then proceed. If it gets to a half a tower, the spark may jump to the wrong tower; so we gotta fix that BEFORE ever cranking the engine!

Exact timing for break-in is not important. After it fires up and the rpm is set to at least 2200 rpm, I just pull on the Vcan, to advance the timing until the rpm plateaus (stops increasing) then retard it a smidgen. Finally, I reset the rpm closer to 2500.

I hope that clarifies things for you.