[Fot] "Smokey's way"

[Kas Kastner]

I certainly would not to give up looking at the advance curve and say it was 
all over at 3500 rpm.  There is more to it than that.
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> locked out timing is not unusual in the racing world, but as Bill said it 
> makes cars very hard to start because you are trying to start the car at 
> 30-35 degrees of advance.
> Bruce
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>> Just a note of clarification on my previous post, I was not referring to 
>> disabling the advance, merely timing the engine to give the desired 
>> amount of full advance at speed (3000 to 3500 RPM). You can easily start 
>> the engine, but because the engine (on the track) never gets below 4000 
>> to 5000 RPM, the "advance curve" is not an issue. On the track, you are 
>> always at full advance. Why go through all the work of  getting a 
>> distributor dialed in with the correct advance curve, if the engine lives 
>> at full advance?......This is for a race engine, a street engine is an 
>> entirely different matter.
>>
>>
>> Richard Gehweiler
>> Stonefield Vintage Garage, Ltd.
>> stonefield at wi.rr.com
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