70 dart swinger slant turbo build and mild restoration
Well a turbo timer from what I know is basically a timer that runs the car until the turbo has cooled down so u don't run the crap out of your car then just shut it off without letting it cool off and the 2 step is basically a 2 stage Rev limiter that you release once u have left so it holds back the rpms until you release it then the full rpms come on.
What do you run for ignition in your slant? And neat idea recording your gauges but look into your data logger if you know how to get on the computer and do what u do here on fabo then you can figure that thing out
The cars I am famiar with use a 2-step to limit the rpm during stall, so the throttle can be floorboarded to get the carb circuits worrking in that mode, and it won't "walk-trhough" the timing lights on the starting line, due to excessive RPM because of having been floorboarded. When the brake is released, the de-activated cylinder come alive as the car launches. I can't imagine doing this on the street...
My car makes a pass, then idles up the return road to the pits ad the turbo is usually cooled off, by the time I get back to my parking area, so no "timer" is neeeded. I never drive this thing on the street.
My ignition system is brutally simple. It consistes of two pieces... an original Lean Burn distributor that contains neither a centrifugal advance mechanism nor a vacumn advance cannister. It has, in effect, a "locked plate." No advance of any kind. The other piece is an MSD 6-AL box that provides 40,000 volts to tthe plugs. Period. I run 18 degrees of total advance, period. NO CURVE. It makes 351 horsepower (according to the times it turnd) like that. I enter its eighth-mile MPH (91.5) into the Wallace online calculator, and that's what it says for a 3,000-pound vehicle. The car actually weighs 2,680 pounds, but that run was made with a driver and a passenger, so, the total weight was 3,000+.
I can get away with this "no curve" deal, because as I said, this car lives its entire active life on the drag strip. It goes and comes back home on a trailer. If I drove it on the street, I would definitely, have to equip it with a spark advance curve and a vacumn cannister (for some reasonable fuel economy.)
But, it is what it is... simple. Like me.:banghead:
