[Healeys] ingnition leads

Derek Job derek.c.job at gmail.com
Thu May 31 09:39:50 MDT 2012


...and even more importantly, they look an absolute mess if they are all
the same length!

Derek

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Richard Ewald <richard.ewald at gmail.com>wrote:

> For those of you that are math inclined.
> Speed of light = 186,000 miles per second
> 186,000 miles per second = 982,080,000 feet per second
> 982,080,000 = 11,784,960,000 inches per second.  That is eleven billion,
> seven hundred eighty four million, nine hundred sixty thousand inches in
> one second.
> Having one spark lead 1" longer will delay the spark by
> Are you ready for this?
> Are you sure?
> *0.000000000085 seconds.*
> *Holy shit, that is going to throw your timing on that cylinder all to
> hell. </sarcasm >
> *
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Ed O'Neal <ed at wadsworth-eng.com> wrote:
>
> > Just a tidbit of info from the WFS Garage.  Each spark plug ingnition
> lead
> > should be of the same length so that the time for the spark to travel
> from
> > the
> > distributor to the spark plug will be the same for each cylinder.
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