timing advancement

I have a '95 Cobra, I'm trying to learn about timing advancement. How do I advance the timing and what are the benefits of doing it? I had my car in the shop to have the tensioner and harmonic balancer replaced and I asked them if they advanced it or if they messed around with the timing at all but they said they didn't. Since I got it back it feels a bit slower than normal.

This article might be helpful.
You can eek out a little more oomph by advancing the timing, so long as you dont get into detonation.


Good luck.

Just remember to run better gas with more timing.

I gained 12 rwhp with 4deg of timing.

They put a balancer on and didn't recheck the timing? :shakes head: .

Heh, timing is a big part of the deal, we found out yesterday why my bone stock 94 gt was only making 137.5hp at the wheels - the timing was set at -1 degree!

wow....more like holy hell

what were the after numbers or is that to come later?

Can't get back on the Dyno until the end of June, start of July, it's booked out Solid until then.

It will be interesting to see what it puts out/down.