Slow 1/8 with 74 440 dart

i know this is not what this thread is about but do you think my plug readings are so black because of my engine wanting so much initial timing?
It's hard to see from the pictures, but you could have a bad ignition system component, along with bad timing, and a carb that's not right either. I personally would inspect all of those components and make sure each of those was working properly. Is that carb from a known good running car? Or was it new? Are the metering blocks warped? I mean, I think you have more than one contributing factor here. Have you verified TDC ? Or is the balancer reading wrong on your timing.....