Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
09-23-2019, 07:06 PM
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
09-23-2019, 01:55 PM
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Re: timing advance how much is to much
When I was a mechanic, on our Sun diagnostic machine, the timing light had a knob and once you reached total advance, you could turn the knob to align the light to the TDC timing mark and then be...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
09-23-2019, 01:50 PM
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Re: timing advance how much is to much
In reality, how it works, is that you set your initial, then with the vacuum advance, unpluged, rev the engine to 2000 or, what ever the book gives as max advance RPM and check the total advance....
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
09-23-2019, 01:22 PM
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Re: timing advance how much is to much
If you have centrifugal advance weights and your vacuum advance chamber is attached to the breaker plate. They work independently. The weights work on RPM, only. Then the breaker plate advances with...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
09-20-2019, 02:15 PM
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Replies: 50
Views: 7,052
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
09-20-2019, 09:55 AM
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Replies: 50
Views: 7,052
Re: timing advance how much is to much
I have a question regarding higher output engines but, have no plans to build one.
With A/F ratio of about 13.8, what would be total advance, timing you'd be expecting to run, on a hard pull, with...
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