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To: triumph (E-mail) <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: GT6 timing
From: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 16:31:44 -0500
Organization: Southern Rail
I sent this to the Spitfire/GT6 list but I s'pose I oughta' ask here too...

>Okay, campers, some info if you please.  I've gotten my GT6 carbqs worked
> out pretty well (thanks to Jeff at Racetune for his help), so I wanna'
>start optimizing the timing.  It has no idle retard unit, so I'm using
>the static timing spec as a guide to the idle timing.  It is set 2 deg
>later than the static spec right now on the premise that I'm not really
>running 1970 quality gas.  What I'd *like* to do is check it at various
>rpm's higher up to see how well its centrifugal mechanism is working. 
>The onliest thing is, though, I have no such specs.  Ultimately I'll have
>to do the "listen for pinking" thing, but the more pieces of info, the
>better.  (The car can be so noisy sometimes that I'm not sure what I'd be
>hearing anyway!)

Tanks!

Jim Muller
jimmuller@pop.rcn.com
'80 Spitfire (Percy)
'70 GT6+ (Nigel)

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