70 nova. 83' 305, 4bbl qjet. Points style Reman distributor.

This is kinda weird to me..the whole timing thing. I'm not too good at it, but i have a friend who is pretty good at getting it set.

I replaced the intake manifold and my dumbass didn't set it to TDC beforehand, so we have been fighting with it to get it right. Well, we have it running well, but I am still at a loss because we got it to operating temp.

600rpm we are at 7 degrees.
2600rpm we are at 55 degrees?

I know it should be between 28-32 (thanks 327JET) at 2500-2800rpms, but 55?! and the time before that it was at 43 at 2500rpm.

So for now we just capped the port on the carb off and left the advance off of the distributor.


What should I do?

Thanks guys!