List,
As we told Keith on the salt, wounder why they call it a "RETARD Box"
Had to get ya Keith,
Jonathan Amo
www.landracing.com
Keith Turk wrote:
> Okay Bill your Right.... the Distributor Just spins around and provides the
> spark... I have a 1/2 inch hole in the top that allows me to see where it's
> sending it's spark.... with the Retard Box you need to make a decision on
> where you set the Distributor... either on the intitial timing or on the
> Retarded timing...
>
> As Dave Proved to me.. there is damn little difference in the two.. with
> only 8 degrees of total retard....
>
> I don't run a High Speed retard and the 3 step box has a Start retard built
> in.... so once it's running the Timing is All in... which is fine as the
> damn thing won't Idle below 1500 anyway....
>
> Basically what I am saying is that I run 38 degrees of timing with the
> Distributor set straight up and then the appropriate amount of retard staged
> with the Nitrous... or at least that was the Plan till I had to many Pretty
> Gadgets and not enough Brains to operate them....
>
> k
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Bennett" <benettw@earthlink.net>
> To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 8:12 PM
> Subject: Crank Triggered Ignition?
>
> > Having seen Keith's crank triggered ignition setup, I have a pondered
> > something about it. I have never used one so I don't know the whole
> > ins and outs of it, just the basics. With the crank now initiating the
> > spark, the distributor becomes just that a spark distributor with
> > either the advanced locked out or removed. I would imagine that you
> > now have to index the cap to the rotor to assure that when the
> > ignition coil fires the rotor is properly aligned with the cap post.
> > Mechanical timing is now adjusted by moving the magnetic pickup in
> > relationship to the crank wheel. Having said that, here is what I am
> > pondering. When running nitrous you would want about 8 degrees retard
> > for a 200 Hp system add on top of that about 4 to 8 degrees top end
> > retard. So now we are talking about throwing a total of 16 degrees of
> > retard into a system that has no mechanical way of retarding so it
> > must be done electronically. That 16 degrees of retard is crankshaft
> > degrees so it would be 8 degrees retarded in the distributor. Now the
> > question! Wouldn't this 8 degrees retard affect the alignment of the
> > cap and rotor, and how much would be needed to throw the alignment off
> > enough to weaken the spark? I know that was 2 questions.
> >
> > Maybe this whole message is retarded!!!
> > Bill Bennett
> > " Life was better when you could adjust the mixture and timing from
> > the steering wheel"
> > "Southern Salt Terror"
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~benettw/
> >
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