I need schooling - old vs. new engines

I'm not sure. That's a really good que

I wonder if you could "change" that by modifying the timing curve right at idle


Given the stock G3 cam is tame by nature, I'd imagine the idle timing advance isn't that "busy". I have a 112 CL cam and take some of the lope out at idle with timing. It's very easy to do. There's a timing table plotting intake vaccum and RPM. When RPM goes up, knock timing out of it. When RPM goes down, add some advance. If you were to see a log of my timing at idle, it's all over the place.