Need some help with my timing curve.
Ok, so I left the Fbo plate in but I installed it to allow 14* degrees mechanical for a total of 30*. I removed the black spring that I had installed and reinstalled the long looped factory spring like mattax had suggested. Here’s my new curve. It jumped from 16* at 1000rpm to 22* at 1250, so I took a reading at 1100 and 1160 to get a more accurate graph of how the curve is going.
I drove the car to work this morning with yesterdays curve and it was easy to tell it wanted timing sooner, it would buck and surge at low rpm but once the timing came in around 1750-2000rpm it wanted to GO! I got a small taste of how the Honda boyz feel when the V-Tec kicks in!
:rofl:
I test drove the car this afternoon after changing the curve it what it currently is, and it’s definitely better down low. Still feels like it might want a touch more, so I might see about bumping the initial up to 17-18 and see what that does. The car definitely has more power than it’s ever had! I also hooked up the v-can and didn’t get any detonation pulling hills in 5th gear, hopefully I’ll also get better fuel mileage than ever before. I can now pull, recurve and reinstall my distributor in 30-40 minutes, so if y’all have any more tips/suggestions, I’m all ears!
Ok, so I left the Fbo plate in but I installed it to allow 14* degrees mechanical for a total of 30*. I removed the black spring that I had installed and reinstalled the long looped factory spring like mattax had suggested. Here’s my new curve. It jumped from 16* at 1000rpm to 22* at 1250, so I took a reading at 1100 and 1160 to get a more accurate graph of how the curve is going.
I drove the car to work this morning with yesterdays curve and it was easy to tell it wanted timing sooner, it would buck and surge at low rpm but once the timing came in around 1750-2000rpm it wanted to GO! I got a small taste of how the Honda boyz feel when the V-Tec kicks in!
:rofl:
I test drove the car this afternoon after changing the curve it what it currently is, and it’s definitely better down low. Still feels like it might want a touch more, so I might see about bumping the initial up to 17-18 and see what that does. The car definitely has more power than it’s ever had! I also hooked up the v-can and didn’t get any detonation pulling hills in 5th gear, hopefully I’ll also get better fuel mileage than ever before. I can now pull, recurve and reinstall my distributor in 30-40 minutes, so if y’all have any more tips/suggestions, I’m all ears!
