Originally Posted by hooziewhatsit
Originally Posted by MarkZ
Vacuum advance?


Mine ran hot until I gave it a lot more timing at idle, which of course meant I had to limit the total.

I ended up plugging the vac advance into manifold vacuum, and tuning from there.

10° initial doesn't sound like enough... twocents


The OP stated it ran cool enough at idle, but would creep up to 220 at cruise. That's what got me thinking if he was using vacuum advance or not.

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