I had a locked distributor with an Allison conversion on my beast. The dyno operator, a friend of mine would say to me, you built it, you reach in an rotate the dizzy. He'd sit in the car and load it to 4500. It made the same torque at 4000 to 5000 and peak power was 6000 to 6500 on my stock rod motor. 27° on a brew of leaded and hioctane unleaded waay back then. 34° on toluene mixed in. I would have liked 20° @ idle for easy cold starting, but it wasn't hard to put up with.

You can turn 8750rpms with a stock distributor and a set of XU-1 points. My mentor who taught me how to port and how to build cheaply did it all the time.
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69 142S Overdrive + 69 164S Manual