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Richard.
Thanks for your input !!!
I'll be PMing you ( obviously need some of your cams ).

Gordon,
Points open at the same time.
My engine builder/original assembler of the car originally built an 1100 cc Alfa engine to run GM with a custom Moldex crank. He & Doc Wiley were friends. Turns out that Coventry Climax engines had the same bore as the 1300 Alfa, and they ran GM together. Then things changed and he went to 1300 cc and installed a GTA jr with his own designed/built Hillborn style F.I. system (CSR ?). Next owner blew that engine at the Atlan
ta runoffs and bought an AD/Shankle prepared 1300 cc engine. I blew that engine at Summit Point and decided to go 1600 cc because they always put me in with the Lotus 23's and GTA jr parts were getting harder to find. He has done a lot of dyno time on Alfa engines & has never been able to find any difference on the dyno with the 2 degree difference in timing for the distributor. All advance is in by 3500 RPM. In the future I plan to install a Jim Steck modified Datsun distributor, but don't want to disturb anything right now as it's "untouched" since coming off the dyno. I don't have any type of rev limiter, but should explore for the future.
Hope that answers some of your questions. PM me if you want to talk.
Don't think I'll ever beat the 23's, unless the race is long enough (when Charlie Gibson went by me coming out of turn 1, at SP, I thought I was backing up).
Ed