always set all my hot rods between 3 and 5 degrees and never a problem. Can't remember where i got the info, but it was years ago. Craftsman makes a nice magnetic angle finder and it's fairly cheap. In fact just changed my old truck to a 350 auto this last week, had to build a crossmember, set it a 3 degrees.
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