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sscam69
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That is the question and I need some help from you experienced people out there.
Now that I know the timing marks are right I did some experimenting.
I set the timing at 12 deg, set the idle screw, A/F idle screws etc.
But the engine did not sound to good, "healthy" so to speak.
So I loosend the hold down screw and turned the distributor in the counter clockwise direction. When I did this the engine sounded a lot better, "healthy", and the idle rpm went up. So I readjusted the idle to 800rpm along with the A/F ratio screws and the car sounded a whole lot better.
On another note at the 12 deg timing the vaccum was reading approx 12" and when I readjusted I was getting close to 15".
Next test was seat of the pants. So me and my brother went for a few spirited sprints. I told him to remember how the "seat of the pants" feeling felt. We came home and then I readjusted the timing and went for the second round. Sure enough I could feel a difference and then I asked my bro and he said "oh yeah, definitely more".
I checked the timing and the yellow mark was way off the tab. My guess is 16 deg.
Oh and another thing, I installed a advance curve kit because of problems I was having with pinging at higher RPM. No more pinging.
What exactly is going on here? I think I know but I want to hear from you guys what could be happening.
Now that I know the timing marks are right I did some experimenting.
I set the timing at 12 deg, set the idle screw, A/F idle screws etc.
But the engine did not sound to good, "healthy" so to speak.
So I loosend the hold down screw and turned the distributor in the counter clockwise direction. When I did this the engine sounded a lot better, "healthy", and the idle rpm went up. So I readjusted the idle to 800rpm along with the A/F ratio screws and the car sounded a whole lot better.
On another note at the 12 deg timing the vaccum was reading approx 12" and when I readjusted I was getting close to 15".
Next test was seat of the pants. So me and my brother went for a few spirited sprints. I told him to remember how the "seat of the pants" feeling felt. We came home and then I readjusted the timing and went for the second round. Sure enough I could feel a difference and then I asked my bro and he said "oh yeah, definitely more".
I checked the timing and the yellow mark was way off the tab. My guess is 16 deg.
Oh and another thing, I installed a advance curve kit because of problems I was having with pinging at higher RPM. No more pinging.
What exactly is going on here? I think I know but I want to hear from you guys what could be happening.