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Re: [Healeys] ingnition leads

To: Ed O'Neal <ed@wadsworth-eng.com>, Richard Ewald <richard.ewald@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] ingnition leads
From: Robert Blair <rnbmail@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 10:31:51 -0700 (PDT)
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Exactly.

The error in the lobe profile of the distributor that triggers the points to
open is a million times greater than the wire length error....

Robert N. Blair  Yellow 65BJ8  RNBmail@yahoo.com
 



--- On Thu, 5/31/12, Richard Ewald <richard.ewald@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Richard Ewald <richard.ewald@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] ingnition leads
> To: "Ed O'Neal" <ed@wadsworth-eng.com>
> Cc: "Healeys@autox.team.net" <Healeys@autox.team.net>
> Date: Thursday, May 31, 2012, 8:26 AM
> For those of you that are math
> inclined.
> Speed of light = 186,000 miles per second
> 186,000 miles per second = 982,080,000 feet per second
> 982,080,000 = 11,784,960,000 inches per second.  That
> is eleven billion,
> seven hundred eighty four million, nine hundred sixty
> thousand inches in
> one second.
> Having one spark lead 1" longer will delay the spark by
> Are you ready for this?
> Are you sure?
> *0.000000000085 seconds.*
> *Holy shit, that is going to throw your timing on that
> cylinder all to
> hell. </sarcasm >
> *
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Ed O'Neal <ed@wadsworth-eng.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Just a tidbit of info from the WFS Garage.  Each
> spark plug ingnition lead
> > should be of the same length so that the time for the
> spark to travel from
> > the
> > distributor to the spark plug will be the same for each
> cylinder.
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