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Vacume Advance Opperation

To: Spit Fires <spitfires@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Vacume Advance Opperation
From: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 11:07:50 +0000
Here is a puzzeler that I don't understand, to do with the vacume system
on the UK Spitfires, and most car's.

The vacume advance is connected to a tap point on the rear carb.  This
apperes to be the wrong side of the butterfly.  I put my vacume metere
on this tap to see what's happening. 

At idle you get no vacume, you only start to get a vacume when the
throughtle is opened a littel.  This can be explained by the position of
the tap, but why is it designed to do this?

-- 
James Carpenter
Yellow '79 spit wired by a trained marmot

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