W2 Mopar inspection w/RAMM

Hysteric said

The reason it wanted that much timing was because it was lean. You must be tired as I'm sure its late over there so you must have missed this:

"If this is the head and combustion chamber the engine has, I would be surprised it is happy with 36 degrees total. I have tuned a few SBF with this head and similar heads in the last 10 years or so that were happy with 30 or less .... 26. Too much timing, even if it doesn't knock, will make the engine feel like the brakes are dragging or the car is towing a parachute."

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So run it lean and pull timing. Got it. Like I said, timing is a NUMBER. I’m not impressed with something that needs 24 total more than something that needs 44 total.

Geezus, you make it sound like anything that needs more than 24 total is junk and won’t run.

EDIT: here is a final thought. I don’t care how “big” or “small” a chamber is. Rod ratio and bore diameter are MUCH a bigger factors in total timing than a small chamber.

Example???? The 340 is the best one. Most has ZERO quench, and big, “slow” chamber and you couldn’t make it rattle at full timing unless you were a full on retard. 34-36 is where they ALWAYS ran and still do, even with “quench”.

BTW, did you notice in your above example, no one asked the OP what plug he was running? I thought about and said piss on it. The hot plug crowd will be all over it. That dude had other issues, and for the life of me, I can’t get your point. Rather than beat around the Bush, spit it out and make your point.