i have a 65 nova with a 427 sm blk on nitrous,what i am trying to do is use thr gear retards to take timing out with a progressive nitrous controller, when i leave the line 1st gear retard comes on and slopes from 3400 rpm and 20% nitrous @10 degrees retard to 7000 rpm and 60% nitrous and 15 degrees retard then in 2nd from 5500 rpm and 15 degrees @ 60% nitrous to 7100 and 25 degrees retard @80% nitrous, is this making sence.? i used to run it with a plate and port nozzles and just used the step retards to take out the timing when the stage was activated. it worked good but i did have problems with pistons melting once in a while,but for a 3150 lbs car with 10.5 tires it ran 8.60's @ 159mph with 400 hp in the nozzles and 250 in the plate. Now i havent tried this yet with the controller and the gear retards , so if any body knows if this will work or not please let me know , because i really dont want to melt anything , just want to haul ass

thanks