timing for a mild 360

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Re: timing for a mild 360 [Re: forphorty] #492597 10/09/09 08:31 PM 10/09/09 08:31 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 25,200 Upper Midwest M MoparforLife Too Many Posts
MoparforLife Too Many Posts M Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 25,200 Upper Midwest	Quote: Quote: Quote: I agree with the too much initial but for the reason I stated above. I have set a lot stock and higher compression engines at 35 total with 15 initial and not had a problem with hard warm starting. I haven't heard yet if the distribor is a recurve MP model or a stock distributor. If stock and testing for total at a low RPM will/may give a lot more initial thaan 15. This is stock electronic. I tested it at idle. You had 35 degrees at idle? If so, and you have a stock distributor, you probably have 50+ total. Too much. Even if he checked the total of 35 degrees at 2500 it would still have way too much initial because it would still have a lot of advance to go, requiring the initial to be upped to make up for the advance that the mechanical advance has not been used yet. To get a true total advance at a lower RPM the distributor mechanical advance must be recurved.

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