I think my brain is fired, literally, from picking a 90+ degree day to work
over a hot engine so please bear with me. When I stand on the distributor
side of the car with the engine turned off and look at the timing marks, the
BTDC marks are above the 0 mark and the ATDC are below it... Correct?
8
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4 BTDC
-
0
-
4 ATDC
-
8
If so, at idle I'm on the 4 degree ATDC mark which then advances/increases
as I increase RPMs. So now I want to find the optimum timing for my car.
Haynes says "distributor can be moved about 1/4 of a division at a time
until the best setting is obtained". So what's a 1/4 of a division? And I
assume they want you to advance it. I'm thinking of increasing the advance
by 2 degrees at a time until there's some pinging? Maybe start at 6 degrees
and see what happens. If I hear pinging, retard it a degree?
Thanks as always
Bob Danielson
1975 TR6
http://tr6.danielsonfamily.org
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