Yeah must do base timing with vac advance off.

Great, thank you for all your help guys

 

By the sounds of it we were using the wrong tools........US

 

Will have a go at setting the timing without the vac advance on and see how that goes

 

Thanks again

Andrew

mech advance should do its thing no matter how you set it though?

mech advance should do its thing no matter how you set it though?

 

Absolutely, but my thinking is i can't get the proper advance because what i thought was 15deg was more like a 0 or negative base and i was only getting 15 when i raised the revs up

 

I think anyway, i don't really know, i am confused but learning :)

try any thing once hey.

 

remember that vacuum advance doesnt do anything for you when you put your foot down, at wide open throttle vacuum is at minimal. As far as i understand vac advance is used mainly for emissions type stuff, helps burn everything completely when you have high vacuum (idle, high revs but off throttle etc)

HaHa, Yeah i guess i might have confused the mechanical advance not working for the timing being set to retarded to begin with...... much like myself

Ok so dizzy is now working :party:

It seems (and I'm not sure of all the correct part names here) but the centre part underneath the modules that is connected to the weights was slightly seized to the shaft so the mechanical advance wasnt actually working, like it was locked

 

Got it freed up and advances really well now

 

Still may need to play with the curve though, we set the base timing at 20 deg and still couldnt get it to ping so will play with it a little more and see itf the springs need to be changed

 

I love the torque and power of the 7k though!! Farkurnelll even un tuned there was a massive increase over the little 4k can't wait to see how it goes with a good tune

I also hav a Brand new Bosch MEC718 coil to install next weekend as well s that will no doubt help

Nice

Edited May 13, 201214 yr by styler