stroker distributor questions

Mad Dart said

Locked out means NO Vacuum advance. Only Mechanical. So like Justin aka "1wild&crazyguy" is telling you with your cam you will need alot of initial timing at IDLE or it will want to stall or DIE without say around 24-25* AT IDLE, then when you rev it to 2500 by hand with the timing light on it you will see the timing advance and you dont want that anymore than 34* TOTAL timing, which would be called ALL IN 34* at 2500rpm or so.

With your cam it will probably idle somewhere around 1000-1200 rpm's, for reference only!

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I just spoke with the machine shop and asked them a few questions. One of his answers was that they "do" on some race engines run the distributor in a full advance mode. what i understood him to say was that the mopar dist would need to be run this way if its not the adjustable style. (i dont think i have an adjustable style, he explained how to identify.) He did confirm this engine will need the 20+ initial and the mopar wont get me there. Am i spinning my wheels here with the mopar distributor? should i just convert now to an MSD?