Fellow FOTers,
I'm so good with the foot in mouth disease that I might as well jump in one
more time.
The way I set the ignition timing on my TR-4 is whilst driving to the race and
cruising at say 4000 rpms, I press down on the accelerator and if the engine
pings, I stop and retard the spark. If it doesn't ping I advance it until it
does then back off again until it doesn't do it any more. After buying race
gas at the track, I do it all over again during practice and then I go on to
worry about something else because this seems to always work.
It also appears that the engine will run a little hotter if the spark is
retarded. This seems counter-intuitive, doesn't it?
So the question is, how do you real guys set your spark par excel lance? And
how do you check it for each cylinder?
Richard Taylor
TR-4
Atlanta
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