Continuing ignition timing debate from the 416 thread.

Peak torque and peak power.

The problem is if you don’t have a way to move the timing electronically you have to do it manually and thats hard to do.

You need to be able to at least see a vacuum gauge and your torque output and then check the timing with the light.

I can do all that sitting at the console.

But I’ve done it manually and if you are only doing peak torque and power it’s not all that bad. But that distributor will be very hot. Im not that smart and started turning it without a glove on. It wasn’t a pleasant experience.
Just for the sake of conversation it wouldn’t be cool to see just if or how much his number changes steady state vs his sweep test. At this point just trying it at peak tq would be interesting