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Re: [Healeys] ingnition leads

To: "Ed O'Neal" <ed@wadsworth-eng.com>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] ingnition leads
From: Richard Ewald <richard.ewald@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 08:26:11 -0700
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For those of you that are math inclined.
Speed of light = 186,000 miles per second
186,000 miles per second = 982,080,000 feet per second
982,080,000 = 11,784,960,000 inches per second.  That is eleven billion,
seven hundred eighty four million, nine hundred sixty thousand inches in
one second.
Having one spark lead 1" longer will delay the spark by
Are you ready for this?
Are you sure?
*0.000000000085 seconds.*
*Holy shit, that is going to throw your timing on that cylinder all to
hell. </sarcasm >
*



On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Ed O'Neal <ed@wadsworth-eng.com> wrote:

> Just a tidbit of info from the WFS Garage.  Each spark plug ingnition lead
> should be of the same length so that the time for the spark to travel from
> the
> distributor to the spark plug will be the same for each cylinder.
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