Loves302Chevy
"One test is worth a thousand expert opinions."
True. My 302 Chevy (8000 rpm) has the distributor locked out and the timing set to 36 degrees.
But it has no problems starting because of the MSD 6AL ignition and it's built-in timing retard during cranking.
Or so I thought. I will have to verify this.
Well, I dug the old paperwork out and could not find any references to the 6A and 6AL boxes retarding the timing during cranking, but the 7AL2 does.
So it appears I was wrong about this. I must have confused the 20 degrees of multiple sparks below 3000 rpm and 20 degrees of cranking retard.
Thanks for pointing this out AutoWiz.