[blykins]

Right...

On a Digital 6, you have to tell it to do that. It's on one of the dials.

For a street compression engine I really don't see the need to do that (such as Chris' case) unless he has purposefully locked the distributor out.

It would be perfectly fine to run a set initial and a set advanced timing. Any starter (even including most stock starters) will turn over 10.5:1 without slow cranking.

If the compression were 12.5:1 or the dizz was locked out, then it would be nice to have.

Keep in mind that if the ignition retard was on and the engine was set up with a lower initial, with a lot of ignition retardation built into the box, it would be WAY retarded and probably wouldn't start without backfiring out the carb and throwing an absolute fit.