skewbe |
01-30-2007 06:57 PM |
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Originally Posted by Coyote X
(Post 39131)
I seem to have slightly better mileage at 5 degrees cam advance on mine but I think it is mainly based on type of driving and speed.
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It may be because you have an xfi also. suprf1y was pushing the 10 degree ones for my car, so I went for it. But I read a bunch of stuff you wrote about your experiment on teamswift also, and it was inspiring. Props. Nice to have the option to reuse a perfectly good cam gear, too easy.
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Originally Posted by Coyote X
(Post 39131)
You need a timing light though to see what you really ended up with.
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I did find my timing light last night, but couldn't bring myself to waste gas on a tune-up warm up, so waited till this afternoon to fiddle with it. I had the good sense to made a mark on the rotor at tdcc before I started and the original distributor position was obvious, the ungrimed area where the washer used to be. It looks like I wound up at 12 degrees +- 2 degrees. I discovered there is a lot of slop in the rotor, I thought it had a busted mechanical advance till this afternoon :eek: so I kinda forgot about the rotor mark. Good enough for now.
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Originally Posted by Coyote X
(Post 39131)
I tried my car at ~ 3,5,10,15,18... Takes like 30 seconds to adjust it that way.
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I think I just figured this out. I was worried about getting to the tensioner bolts down low. Do you just leave the tensioner locked where it is and bolt the gear back into the pre-existing belt tension? That would be quick enough to do.
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