Cascade Crew

[aaron_sK]

One more thought:

On my Camaro I ran Taylor wires with 90* boots and no condoms. I ran them up through the top similar to Al's and I had zero issues with them for several years. The Accell ones I replaced were physically crispy in some spots.

[91RSVert]

Ive had problems with several accel parts. I wont put them on my car if given to me.

[jchaussee]

I think I shall upgrade to Taylor wires soon. But first I need to figure out my tuning . I have been doing akot of reading on timing and it seems that in order to do it correctly I am in a pickle , for my engine is bit sick to the car and I have no clue of the internals , so therefor no way to no what my timing should be at.

[jchaussee]

And to make matters worse, all that I have been reading shows how to do it with a dial back gun

[Twilightoptics]

yup.


Old heads set it to 36 total after 3000rpm, put the vacuum port on manifold vacuum and see if it pings. If it does, back it down a degree at a time.

No dial back light, use timing tape.

[aaron_sK]

[jchaussee]

I had this old man from across the strett come over. He said by ear timing didn't seem to bad, so he showed me how to use a screw driver to ground out plugs and with that u found a wire that visably didn't look bad bad was. Replaced it. Runs well enough now to at least get me by for a week or two. But I have a bad exhaust leak

[Twilightoptics]

LMAO. I remember those old coots.

"yeah that sounds right to me."

Then I prove to them what 15deg off can do to an engine.

[aaron_sK]

Back in their day the gas was good, the compression was low, the head design was terrible, the cam was too big and they could get by with BS like that.

Now it's gasahol and small high-compression heads and hyper pistons.

[jchaussee]

I am sure timing is off, but it did show me that at least then, wire was bad

[Twilightoptics]

[jchaussee]

I figured they were but a visual Inspe tion showed no issues. So that is where trick of the old timer came into play. After I saw nothing visually I with my no knowledge brain assumed timing had just jumped real bad.

[Alphius]

You can also check for that easier than pulling all the plugs by firing the car up cold then feeling the header tubes and looking for a cold one. You need a timing light to do your timing. I have a dialback light but it's almost useless and I don't trust it's measurements so I use it locked to 0 and use the 0-60 degree marks on my balancer instead. You can get that same effect with timing tape.

[aaron_sK]

While we're on the subject of old-man tricks: in the past I have found a dead cylinder by putting the inductive pickup of the timing light on each plug wire and pointing the gun at the ground.

[Alphius]

[jchaussee]

I have a timing light, just not a dialback. I have an old school sears light from like 1977

[jchaussee]

I have one of those timing tabs on my harmonic balancer, so do I need timing tape?

[aaron_sK]

[jchaussee]

I don't know. It is oily. But the one I saw on the you tube video did. Lol

[aaron_sK]

That was a joke.

It will read back to eight or ten degrees, maybe twelve. You need the tape. Cheap stuff. Just clean the balancer first.