Back in the Fox days, the most common method of tuning was to increase timing until detonation, and back it off a couple degrees. Like Fox cars, that method was crude, but a dyno wasn't on every other ...
"Uh, I don’t know. The car felt good and I was driving wicked fast. Yeah, I mean, I think it felt a little… slower? But dude, I really got on the gas early in turn 6 and it felt great. Or was that 7?