Some of you may get annoyed because i have brought this subject up before but i want to fully understand this once and for all. The engine is a 360 magnum mopar electronic ignition with the mopar vaccume advance distributer. I un plugged the vaccume advance from the carburetor and plugged it off and it is plugged to the timed vaccume port on the edelbrock carb wich is the passenger side vaccume port. Anyways the timing light i have is a dial back timing light, my balancer has a tab on it that lights up with the timing light so you can clearly see it with the light on it, that eliminates the need for me to use timing tape or anything like that. I plugged the vaccume advance hose off started the engine and i set the timing at 10 degrees while at an idle, then i had my friend get in it and hold the gas steady at 3000 rpm and i set my dial back timing light at 35 and i shined the light down on it and it was up higher around 42 so i climbed up there turned the distributer clock wise a little bit got back down shined it on it and it was dead on at 35 on my timing light. I had my friend let go of the gas and i hooked the vaccume advance hose back up and set the idle opn the carburetor. What is my total timing? this is where it gets confusing to me, i set the initial idle timing at 10 degrees and at 3000 rpm its at 35 degrees so does that mean my total timing is 45? Does this sound about right for a mild 360 I gotta say it sounds pretty good at 10 degrees initial at idle and 35 degrees at 3000 rp. I am just trying to understand this once and for all and would like to know if i have the timing in the right ball park?
