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Ok so here is what I mustered up after a bit of messing with it. I have about 18 degrees total advance, and eneded up with about 18" of vacuum.
These results were obtained with the vacuum advance OFF and the carb port for the vac. adv. plugged. I left the pcv vacuum hooked up and put my vacuum gauge on the small vac. on the right side. (if you are looking at the carb from the front of the car)
It was completely warmed up and now idles around 800 rpms. with all theses items set.

Results are as follows.
Ping: has gotten much better, the "pinging" is not so noticalble but is still there under a load. (in gear, accelerating fairly hard)
Carb reaction: Before, it had some serious lag. If you stomped it, it would slightly stall and then pick up.
Now it has nearly NO stall prior to revving if you stomp it. (mainly refering to manualy moving the throttle by hand at the carb.
Smell: It does seem to smell much better. Not so rich smelling.

My opinion. I did this over the course of about 2 hours, thats running it around the neighborhood and all. So in my opinion I have just scratched the surface with getting it dialed in but I seem to be going forward anyhow.
I think at this point I may need to either retard the timing further or run premium gas. I guess the easiest way to solve that would be to try it, especially since the tank is nearly empty at the moment.
Still open to any advice, but thx for your input Z28.