| Re: Car is driving me crazy: Engine tuning troubles (with a carb) |
Subject: Re: Car is driving me crazy: Engine tuning troubles (with a carb) by lltrevino on 2009/12/4 2:53:51 I agree with CC, 24 * with advance included, I was not figuring in the mechanical advance. I was doing the old school Method, hell I can throw the advance light on, I already know @ 2000rpm 's I am getting almost a full 38* degrees TOTAL TIMING. Tomorrow, I will throw the advance light on it, report my findings. Pretty bad over the weekend, I smoked a mustang with my plowtruck, up to 60 miles an hour, of course he would of had me beyond that, but I was in 4 wheel drive, and he could not man up to it 93 mustang being beat once, so I did it 3 times. anyways, I can tell you though I had a horrible loss of torque before I used the power tune method. My engine did not like anything beyond 16* initial NONADVANCED TIMING. sounded like garbage, and was not running right. Trust me you will know when you go too much advance, the problem is, carbs dont have a knock sensor to retard the timing, even when the inaudible knock does happen. I always error on the side of safety here. |
