Help me plan: My first intake swap ... EVER.
Perfect tool. Great tool tip Redfish! KD still makes them. KDS104
Less than $20.00.
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Done procured those tools, when I first started seriously tuning / maintaining / giving the ole Scamp the love it hadn't had in 15 years. I needed to adjust initial timing, and my socket tools, no matter the combo was a PITA. The previous owner (great guy, took good care of the Scamp, but his wife had been sick and needing near full time care (which he handled himself) which left him no time for the Scamp in 15 years), said that some motorhead set his timing based on "hearing / listening" to it.
The previous owner (my first engineering mentor) is 100% old school to this day. Wouldn't know what an AFR is (for example), but would appreciate it if I showed it to him in action. The timing was set at about 19° BTDC initial timing (no vacuum advance). I had to put a new harmonic balancer on it, and when doing so I put timing tape on it, accurate down to a gnat's hiney. After the new HB with timing tape is where I found the timing at 19°. I pulled the initial timing back to ~10°, and then later to 9°. I still think I hear pre-ignition under certain circumstances … and the AFR gauge proves it's not pre-ignition due to lean AFR. So … maybe I'm not really hearing pre-ignition. Anywho, it runs good, good power. I'm not a timing expert but I think it's set well for this engine.
