Trouble setting ignition timing

Post by **vanzep** » Thu Aug 14, 2014 8:15 pm

W1ggz wrote:Must be why your in the 177 club

I was in the 153 club on our last dyno due to disti timing being miles out (everyone got low readings that day

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timing has be done its a different car

it was the poor dyno result that made me look at the timing side of things in a bit more detail and @Merlin helped me set mine

the way i see it yhe dyno run was a good thing and worth the cost

Post by **GreenyUK** » Thu Aug 14, 2014 9:14 pm

W1ggz wrote:Must be why your in the 177 club

Haha

hopefully mate will be a nice quick fix lol.

vanzep wrote:
W1ggz wrote:Must be why your in the 177 club
I was in the 153 club on our last dyno due to disti timing being miles out (everyone got low readings that day )
timing has be done its a different car
it was the poor dyno result that made me look at the timing side of things in a bit more detail and @Merlin helped me set mine
the way i see it yhe dyno run was a good thing and worth the cost

Yeah really this fills me with hope lol. I can't believe I've not seen the red mark. I only seen the white hence why I used it lol. I guess that is the BDC mark then

Post by **vanzep** » Fri Aug 15, 2014 8:44 am

Glad it gives you hope

Im sure white timing mark is TDC and red timing mark is 15 degrees advance - you should look to set it around the red mark plus or minus two degrees.
Like @Merlin said - you should also be able to hear when its set correctly as there will be a slight change in engine note

Post by **GreenyUK** » Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:15 pm

I probably won't hear any change over the ticking!! Lol it's horrendous lol. Need to sort the vavle clearences and timing but I don't have time and the misses uses mine as a daily while hers is off the road lol

Post by **GreenyUK** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 8:46 pm

Well had a look at this again tonight. I don't know!

I can't see any red mark in fact the only thing I can see is a white mark. It's a mark scrubbed into the flywheel with a white so lodge on it.

I was moving the dizzy back and forth to see if I could hear this change in tone. When I pretty much turned the dizzy as much as it would go to the firewall (advanced) it did change, it got slightly faster, and my ticking was more noticeable.

Everything's been chucked and beer opened. Guess I will have to take the wheel off and everything now just to turn it over by hand to try and find a red mark and the degrees marks

Bludge · Post by **Bludge** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 9:40 pm

bah, not boding well for me then. guess i will have to do the same!

Post by **GreenyUK** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 9:42 pm

Duno mate you might be able to it in yours? Have you not got a light yet?

Bludge · Post by **Bludge** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 9:51 pm

Nah, as sad as it sounds im literally too poor to buy one at the moment so trying to find someone i can borrow from.

Post by **GreenyUK** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 10:06 pm

Oh right fair enough mate there's always something going on in life that sucks all our monies ey, you settled in the new ace now?

Your abit far from me really arnt you lol otherwise you could of used mine

Bludge · Post by **Bludge** » Sun Aug 17, 2014 11:02 am

Yeah we are settling in, still living out of boxes to a certain degree though! lol.

Yeah i think it would cost me about the same to come up to you as to buy a gun! lol, otherwise i would popped up!