Scott,
More important is your total timing! - I run the same cam and it likes a
total of 32 degrees at full advance - Never really even bother with the idle
timing but it is somewhere around 13 I think, as the distributor has 18
degrees of advance - I'm also assuming you degreed the cam in as well
according to the cam card- Testing- Testing- Testing is the words from the
wise one Kas and he would know- but hopefully this will give you a good
starting point - Get it on a dyno and you'll know for sure-
John W.
Spitfire #892
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Janzen" <s.janzen@comcast.net>
To: "FOT" <FOT@Autox.Team.Net>; "Lamp, Randy H" <rhlamp@babcock.com>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 6:27 PM
Subject: Ignition timing; Missing a page of Kastner's book.
>I just fired up the GT6 after 8 long weeks of disassembly. With a new
>(old)
> cam (Crane F-254/325-8) the idle is of course much rougher and I started
> jiggering the ignition timing. Here are the questions:
>
> The car has a Crane XR3000 optically triggered (off the distributor)
> electronic ignition. Should idle timing be any different than a stock car
> with this cam and ignition, i.e., 13 degrees BTDC?
>
> I referred to Kastner, only to find that the section on road testing the
> ignition is missing page 144 in my book, starting with the second
> paragraph
> of "The Testing". Anyone have a scanner, copier or fax who can send me
> that
> page? fax 215.233.1509
>
> Any advice would be appreciated!
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