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Thread Author: bathtub tom Replies: 3

 KIA Pride - 94 1324 Optimum ignition timing - Screwloose

On your own [cracked] head be it.


To optimize the timing at any particular revs. [Around 2,000 is about right for road use.]

Connect an analogue hand-held rev counter; loosen distributor; start engine.

Adjust throttle stop to around 2,000 revs. Slowly advance the dizzy and you'll see the revs first increase, then level out, then drop as a misfire begins.

Gradually retard from there until you achieve the peak reading that you got on the way up. Retard it down another 50 revs, which usually requires quite a turn, then lock-up the dizzy there.



[And that hideous half-carb/half singlepoint injection unit with an electronic main jet was, thankfully, unique to that engine.]

 Messages Author Date
 KIA Pride - 94 1324 Optimum ignition timi.. new bathtub tom 24 Mar 10 01:34
 KIA Pride - 94 1324 Optimum ignition .. new Screwloose 24 Mar 10 02:37
 KIA Pride - 94 1324 Optimum ignition ti.. new bathtub tom 24 Mar 10 11:00
 KIA Pride - 94 1324 Optimum ignition t.. new Dog 28 Mar 10 15:27
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