Quote Originally Posted by Devon32 View Post
I don’t know too much about the internals. It’s a mild cam. Comp cams. Not sure if the exact specs though. I just put a timing light on at idle and it’s at nearly 50 degrees. If I attempt to adjust the distributor to lower it, engine sounds awful.
By chance does this have multi-spark ignition (MSD) and an un-compatible timing light? If it has MSD move the timing lights inductor as close to the distributor as possible, this sometimes eliminates the ghost reading (second strobe).