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General Category => Hybrid/Tech => Topic started by: jagojon3 on August 03, 2009, 07:19:08 PM

Title: General ignition timing question
Post by: jagojon3 on August 03, 2009, 07:19:08 PM: How much adjustment does the distributor provide for ignition timing? I know some have smaller/larger slots than others that will affect this, but what is the approximate range in degrees from all the way retarded to all the way advanced at the distributor?
Title: Re: General ignition timing question
Post by: Joseph Davis on August 05, 2009, 04:10:07 AM: +/- 9 degrees, sometimes more like +/- 8 on some distributor housings.
Title: Re: General ignition timing question
Post by: jagojon3 on August 05, 2009, 08:09:17 AM: Thanks JD
Title: Re: General ignition timing question
Post by: Joseph Davis on August 05, 2009, 09:59:34 AM: NP

I don't know everything, but I know the limits.
Title: Re: General ignition timing question
Post by: chris on August 05, 2009, 01:21:41 PM: -8 is what we usually were able to get when we did alot of nitrous cars. A guy down in sothern California one of the few guys to run 10's on a fmu daryl bacon use to slit open all the dist bolt holes. I have no idea what his base timing was but the way the car ran Im thinking almost nothing.
Title: Re: General ignition timing question
Post by: jagojon3 on August 05, 2009, 03:09:38 PM: So total range is around 16-18 degrees of adjustment, sweet.
Title: Re: General ignition timing question
Post by: ratcityrex on August 05, 2009, 05:53:25 PM: I thought total range was like 8-9

I kow with my car running if I go all the way from one way to the other on the dizzy it only changes my timing from about 12-19
Title: Re: General ignition timing question
Post by: jagojon3 on August 05, 2009, 06:49:24 PM: Quote from: ratcityrex on August 05, 2009, 05:53:25 PM
I thought total range was like 8-9

I kow with my car running if I go all the way from one way to the other on the dizzy it only changes my timing from about 12-19

You just completed contradicted yourself.

edit: you must mean it changes from 12 deg. advanced to 19 deg. advanced, I thought you mean it changed in a total range of 12 to 18 degrees.
Title: Re: General ignition timing question
Post by: ratcityrex on August 05, 2009, 06:52:03 PM: My bad I forgot to add ish at the end of 11-19"ish"

And I now see that I typed 12 instead of 11.....lol
Title: Re: General ignition timing question
Post by: jagojon3 on August 06, 2009, 12:20:44 AM: What
Title: Re: General ignition timing question
Post by: ratcityrex on August 06, 2009, 12:32:20 AM: yes
Title: Re: General ignition timing question
Post by: jagojon3 on August 06, 2009, 12:33:38 AM: I still don't understand what you were trying to say.
Title: Re: General ignition timing question
Post by: crttaz on August 06, 2009, 04:04:27 AM: Quote from: jagojon3 on August 06, 2009, 12:33:38 AM
I still don't understand what you were trying to say.

you should swallow like a faggot tranny bitch and start tuning VW's.

The rest is easy to understand.
Title: Re: General ignition timing question
Post by: Joseph Davis on August 06, 2009, 09:47:05 AM: I hereby pronounce the usefulness of this thread to be at an end.
Title: Re: General ignition timing question
Post by: ratcityrex on August 06, 2009, 11:51:11 AM: kO