Re: Timing = heating?
There are posts here on locating TDC and then degreeing your crank pulley by using a compass and protrator to make a quick template to fit your crank.
Do this, then get someone to watch a tachometer while you note amount of advance from idle up to 3,000...I'd like advance in considerably befor 3,000 actually, with no supercharger to complicate life. If you reach 3,000 and timing has not maxed out, you need weaker springs in advance.
Flatheads also expect to have the advance curve start to go up immediately above idle. Slow is bad.
With you pulley degreed, a timing light, and a tach your engine is your distributor machine and you are seeing what is actually happening.
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