It is either late and I am tired, or it is really very messed up

Anyway, I've always been confused with all the differences between USDM and EUDM ECUs.
Another example of what
gtswrx said is my own ECU stock bin which you can find below. Same thing - at load 80 (which I've seen slightly touched) you can see timing values of 14 and 15, i.e. lots of potential waiting for somebody to bring it on with adding some timing here and there. I am now running 21-22s and I hear no knocks. And this is on 10:1 redtop lowport P10, not P11.
I got kind of screwed when I decided to stick with my 83J ECU and buy a nistune Type3 board. It turns out that I am probably the only nistune client with such ECU. Things here are a bit more complicated as I've seen minor changes in the VE table making huuuge troubles.