Hello,
I am trying to set the timing (dynamically) on my '66 MGB and have some
questions:
1) Haynes lists 14 and 12 degrees depending on if I have high compression or
low compression... how do I know that?
2) Is there some secret to getting the distibutor to turn? I loosened the
bolt that hold it tight but it wouldn't budge and finally got hot that I
couldn't tough it.
3) Haynes says to time at 600 rpm but I couldn't get it lower than 750, is
that a problem
Also, in general what does a high setting do? Better performance? Better
Gas Mileage? Better anything?
Also (again) the reason I am adjusting the timing is that the car is slugish
under hard acceleration... in the higher rpms it tends to give little
backfires. Normal driving seems fine, but when I hit the pedal to speed up
the car some times slows down... not a good thing <g>
I check the spark plugs and they had a slight carbon build up and I am going
to tune the carbs after the timing, but I thought I should set the timing
first. Right now the timing is at about 11 degrees. I was going to set the
timing statically but I couldn't find a socket big enough to turn the engine
over <g>
Thanks for any help,
Ross
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