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Well Roger should have given you those specs.

12-14 initial is what I would expect to see for initial start up.

Leave the plugs out, hook up the timing light to #1, turn over the engine with the starter (remote starter), turn the distributor until the timing marks line up, bolt the distributor down.

Put in your plugs and start it. Leave the timing light hooked up to see what the computer does with the timing.

It may retard that number to start the engine, then advance it to keep it running as it warms up, then adjust it to the pre-determined idle rpm set in the program.

It should be an engine temp (probably water temp rather than oil temp) vs. engine rpm curve?

This part shouldn't be an issue for you or the engine. The CPU should pick it all up and compensate for everything.

You are close to being good to go?