[jwd]

I will add one thing about your timing. Now I'll admit I've never even owned a FE motor However, I've built and tuned many SBF, 460's,SBC and BBC some putting out over 600 HP and from where I stand, those timing specs. listed above are way out of line. What I shoot for is around 10 initial with a total of 36-iron heads and 34 for alloy heads all in by 2800RPM. You absolutely MUST have a dist. with vacuum advance that adds 8 dist.(16 crank) degrees and have it hooked up to a constant vacuum source. That will give you a total of 26 at an idle yet still be easy to start. The advantage of this set-up is better throttle response, better gas mileage AND a cooler running engine at all RPM's. I've never seen a motor that didn't run better with vacuum advance.
Jim