Re: Timing Vs Over Heating--Longish!

What Paul said! (except I can't find my Frank Zappa 8 track tape)

And FWIW, Lucas 23Ds are 15* advance. At least the 3 I have are.


> With a generally recognized maximum advance on the timing to prevent
> destruction of the engine being about 30 degrees, it's pretty easy to
> figure out where you should have an initial dynamic timing set.
> 
> An example would be something like this.
>         Total vacuum advance=   6
>         Maximum centrifugal adv=        16
>         Dynamic timing set              8 BTDC
>                                 ________
>         Total advance degrees   30


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