No Spout Plug? How will this effect things?

[ChunkFunky]

So I finaly figured out what this spout is... the reason I could never find it is cause there's nothing plugged into it to unplug.

So now what I allways thought looked like a fuel injector plug is infact my spout connector with nothing plugged into it.

It must have been this way since I bought my car and with the stock stuff it ran beutifuly, though now that Ive installed new heads and cam and intake, it's been running crappy.. I wanted to check the timing to make sure it's set right..

So without this spout connected, am I not getting any computer controlled advance, is it all mechanical at this point?

Would this explain my runnign crappy with new parts where I used to run fine with teh stock stuff?
-as