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Then I'm back to square one, idling (and driving well) at 40 degrees advance at idle, and 60-62 at 2800rpm. I'm tempted to do nothing, but the engineer in me (that is what I do) wants to figure it...

Denny, that procedure is exactly what I did the other day. Will that really line up the zero on the pointer and the zero on the balancer?

If the pointer is off location, how would this...

It seems that was it. This is where things get confusing, When I rotated the engine with the piston stop in place, I put a mark on the balancer using the zero on the pointer. I rotated the engine...

I dropped off my Jeep with a friend of mine with a shop. He does lots of carb'd engines and Jeeps.

While talking to him, I think we figured it out. I checked that the marks on the balancer were...

The timing mark on the lower gear is a small circle obscured by the paint pen. I put in a better pic, you might be able to see it. Black mark is the keyslot I marked.

I have only an HEI with...

My timing (just measured) is:
24 degrees static at 700rpm
40 static + vacuum at 700rpm
60-62 static + vacuum + centrifugal at 2800 rpm

The cam is Lunati Voodoo 60101
Advertised Duration IN/EX:...

40 degrees is WITH vac advance. I'll post up each component tonight, but I think that's about 25 static. I was idling at about 700 when checked, so below where the centrifugal comes in. With...

After thinking that my timing marks were off, I discovered using a piston stop that they were right on.

My Small block chevy with mild cam and Qjet is running quite well. No pinging (that I can...