Electronic Distributors From Rick Ehrenberg
I thought he said 8 initial at 650 rpm for ease of starting,but by 950 rpm his 2 stage springs have added 16 for a total of 24 degrees.
That's pretty quick, do you guys run more than 22 degrees at 800 - 900 rpm?
You have no idea how to properly set up an ignition from a timing perspective. I run stock 318's at 12-16* initial timing, how is that distributor going to work in that set up without a full R&R to shorten that wonderful 26* built in. I guess if it could handle 38-42 total timing, I'd be good, otherwise, not so much.
Simple rule, you NEVER want any mechanical advance bleeding into your idle settings... EVER!!!! You want idle timing to remain STATIC, otherwise it's another moving variable.
If a set up runs at 850 rpm, what's the initial timing? It's STILL 8* which fricken SUCKS on just about everything.
e-booger has his detractors. I'm one of many that called him out on his over-angling and breaking ball joints bullshit using FMJ spindles that he wrote about in the disc-o-tech article years ago. Scare journalism at it's best. I believe he finally admitted that he'd never heard of a case of a ball joint breaking regarding that hypothesis.
Abodyjoe has posted some articles from magazines over the years regarding how to set timing, I suggest you read a few to get a better understanding, then you will see the light why this distributor is a POS OOTB.
