Hi Scott welcome to the list. I was the tall skinny guy helping Keith
crew the weekend you were at Maxton. You might have wanted to mention
that you run an automatic if I remember correctly. My thoughts on the
ignition retard is yes it probably would help especially if the motor
likes 36 degrees without the nitrous and you have to run 28 when you
use the juice. Sounds to me like it would give you a little more in
1st and 2nd. I would just wire the retard box with the nitrous button
so that when you activate the nitrous it would retard the timing too.
No since trying to work two gadgets at one time. The guy to ask is out
playing on the salt, but when Dave Dahlgren gets back he will probably
add a little more insight to your question.
Glad to have you on the list. By the way to the rest of the list this
guy drove down from Canada just to race with us for the weekend.
Bill Bennett
"Southern Salt Terror"
http://home.earthlink.net/~benettw/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Cowle" <scowle@mentorcollege.edu>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 3:46 PM
Subject: Timing retard devices
> At the Maxton July meet I met Keith Turk and saw his Camaro which is
> featured in the September issue of Hot Rod. I believe he said he was
running
> a MSD ignition including a timing retard box. My question for Keith
or
> anyone else is: would the timing retard box , being used to allow
full
> advance when one does not have the nitrous turned on but have it on
when
> the nitrous is on in high gear, help the car acheive a higher top
speed . At
> maxton in July I ran nitrous in high gear so my overall timing was
only 28
> degrees, but without the nitrous the usually runs 36 degrees total
advance.
> Will running the 36 degree total advance in first and second gear
help me
> achieve a higher top speed. Without the retard box I had to run the
car
> through first and second gear with only 28 degrees of total advance,
which
> created less than ideal performance in these gears but did not
affect third
> gear since the nitrous was on. Any ideas is appreciated.
> Scott Cowle
>
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