[Fot] "Smokey's way"

[jeff_durant at comcast.net]

My TR6 runs a recurved 22D Lucas dist. and I've have had great luck with it.  I should mention that I own an Allen Distributor machine which makes the rebuilds and recurves pretty straightforward.  Too much advance is hard on the starter (also Lucas) and why disable a decent mechanical advance?  
Jeff Durant
TR6 #12
TR250
TR4A
BSA Lightning
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-----Original Message-----
From: "MadMarx" <tr4racing at googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:43:31 
To: <fot at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Fot] "Smokey's way"

I run a stock distributor and the car  is doing well. Take in account that
the car is sometimes running for a while at the pregrid and waiting for the
start. Small oil pressure with much advance could harm the bearings.

Cheers
Chris

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An: Stutzman; Richard Gehweiler; Triumph Friends of
Betreff: Re: [Fot] "Smokey's way"

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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To: "Richard Gehweiler" <mini at wi.rr.com>; "Triumph Friends of"
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Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Fot] "Smokey's way"


> 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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> From: "Richard Gehweiler" <mini at wi.rr.com>
> To: "Triumph Friends of" <fot at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:06 PM
> Subject: [Fot] "Smokey's way"
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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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