Adj vac advance on factory dist.

Strictly speaking the rate does not change unless the spring is changed, just the preload. Changing the preload changes the start and stop.

Yeah, seems very few people paid attention to your cutaway photo. Makes it clear as a bell how it works. But people still argue.

It's in the Chrysler Master Tech Conference. It's measurable with a vacuum pump. I posted this up 2018 and its easy enough to prove to ones self with distributor and a mity-vac or similar.