I guess you could try it and see what you end up with. The old "timing by ear" works OK with Small Block Chevy's but not sure it's effective on motors with ESC.

Mine does have trace pinging under load at 13 deg so somewhere between the stock setting of 10 deg and 13 is probably a happy medium.

Perhaps HondaGuy could share with us what his optimum setting was after checking with a scantool.

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