Spark advance at lower loads

Discussion in '94-95 5.0 Tuning' started by zenboy99, Feb 6, 2009.

  1. zenboy99 Founding Member

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    For a year I've been meaning to mention this on here.

    Went to the dragstrip last year and was running a string of 12.40's and 12.50's, wich was odd since I had done some more mods and had previously run 12.30's. After driving home the car felt real sluggish down low. I finally figured out that the distributor bolt was loose (damn chrome). Reset the timing and everything was.

    It got me thinking that I had only increased the timing at the upper rpms and load levels. I increased the timing at lower load levels and rpms, car felt more snappy around there. Nice little driveability increase.
  2. 2002BLGT Well-Known Member

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    I set base timing to 10 with the distributor and always add atleast 2-3 degrees to the global spark scalar

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