Joe:
Now this is interesting; I guess I should investigate further...
Where should an advance source be connected?
Where should a retard source be connected?
This car has a Weber DGAV downdraft carb, also. I don't know
about the vacuum source on it. I assumed they were all pretty
much the same. So far as I recall, there is only one connection
for vacuum on that carb, but maybe I don't know about another one.
(In which case I probably have a big vacuum leak!)
Regards,
Ray
--- On Mon, 14 Dec 1998 10:21:31 -0800 Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net> wrote:
>Ray,
>The Distributor you have may be from an earlier Spitfire engine that had
>an advance mechanism rather than retard. It really doesn't matter which
>one is on the car as long as the vacuum hose is installed at the proper
>point.
>
>I have an advance on my 1500. I put it on because it came with the carb
>setup from a Mk3 engine. So it operates fine with the hose attached the
>way it was from the factory. But if you have an advance connected to
>the port where a retard would connect it will not operate correctly and
>should be changed at one end or the other.
>
>Regards,
>Joe
>
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Ray W. James, P.E., Ph.D.
Texas Transportation Institute
Civil Engineering Department
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843
Phone (409)845-7436; Fax (409)845-3410
E-mail: r-james@tamu.edu
Date: 12/14/98 Time: 2:54:22 PM
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