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1. Timing Question (score: 1)
Author: Sage <ssage@socal.rr.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 01:00:45 -0800
As usual, I have a couple more questions. What's the consensus on what initial timing should be on a Tiger? The shop manual says 6 degrees BTDC at 500 RPM. Is this about right? Is there a good start
/html/tigers/2004-01/msg00002.html (7,321 bytes)

2. RE: Timing Question (score: 1)
Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 08:33:58 -0800
The shop manual applies to a vacuum advance distributor, plus it is set rather conservatively. For most 260's/289's with a mechanical advance; i.e., dual-point etc, the initial advance should be 16
/html/tigers/2004-01/msg00003.html (7,465 bytes)

3. RE: Timing Question (score: 1)
Author: "ron fraser" <rfraser@bluefrog.biz>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 12:17:27 -0500
At 800 rpm 8 or 9 degrees would be my guess. I normally set my initial advance to 9 degrees; this is for my stock 260, 2 bbl engine. A general rule for total initial + mechanical advance is maximum
/html/tigers/2004-01/msg00004.html (8,861 bytes)

4. RE: Timing Question (score: 1)
Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 10:20:54 -0800
Here is a link to a Crane article that is informative on this topic. Vacuum advance allows the engine run much more advanced (and more efficiently) at light throttle than with only mechanical advanc
/html/tigers/2004-01/msg00005.html (6,989 bytes)

5. Re: Timing Question (score: 1)
Author: DJoh797014@aol.com
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:42:04 EST
Try this trick if you can't see the timing marks. Set the zero mark at the pointer. Then look on the other side where you can shoot the timing gun and have a fixed point of reference. This is your n
/html/tigers/2004-01/msg00008.html (6,832 bytes)

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