Well, after re-evaluating my set-up and pulling my hair out over things that didn't make sense I forgot to look at the obvious. My timing light. That piece of $100 crap I just bought turns out to be off by 10 degrees! So using my older timing light, which I know works and is accurate I now have the timing tweaked at 35 total and 18 initial which would leave 17 degrees of mechanical. Still need to check vacuum advance and total everything up. She drives good, still need more testing before locking everything down.