[CompClassics]

The sooner your advance kicks in the happier your engine will be. You want to achieve total advance as soon as possible, 36 degrees total is the number you want to see.
I can see what Tom is trying to accomplish and on a big block that might work well where you are using less RPM but you will be running into detonation issues if you advance the static timing and do not limit your total mechanical advance in some way so that it does not go higher than 36 degrees total. This would require reconfiguring the advance window on the mechanical advance mechanism so that it limits your total advance.