Lets clarify dist timing a bit etc #1 cylinder

[dardal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Correct, and thanks to everybody else supplementing my post about timing.  As a 
side note:  If you have a good ear for pinging and if you like your engine to 
operate at peak efficiency, do not trust the factory setting for the timing, as 
it is always conservative.  Instead, try to advance as much as you can.  This 
does not apply in the low compression engines.
D^2

Quoting Robin Giesbrecht <robings@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> 
> 
> Had to take the bait. As far as I know all American V8's have #1
> cylinder as 
> the forward cylinder on the bank of cylinders that is forward of the 
> opposite bank(got that?). On the 383/440 that is drivers side bank fwd 
> cylinder.