Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 11:01:42 -0500
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From: "Morris H. Arthur" <marthur@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: #1 firing position on 009? (2.0 l FI)
The power curve for a 009 is usually described as more "performance
oriented": perhaps slightly earlier advance for better acceleration at
the expense of slight (theroretical?) engine degredation. I doubt most of
us would notice it....
Also, I was not referring to firing order, but rather firing *position*
on the distributor cap.
Specifically, is the scratch on your distributor (that is supposed to
mark #1 firing position) a few degrees *clockwise* or *counter-clockwise*
of the notch that has to line up with the distributor cap ???
Also, adjusting valves is very important if you change the firing
position such that #3 fires at the point where you had adjusted #1...
And BTW, our FI computers don't play with spark advance, but I'm
considering installing a CDI module to do just that...
Hey WAIT A MINUTE ! If I install one of those CDI modules in my faulty
distributor, it won't matter if the little centrifugal weights are
advancing the timing correctly! I don't need to replace my distributor...
Boy, am I slow. So, is this a classic case of me talking enough that I solve
my own problem? Comments please....
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Morris Arthur < morris_arthur@unc.edu >
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
University of North Carolina
On Mon, 20 Nov 1995, harmon seaver wrote:
> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 08:23:30 -0700 (MST)
> From: harmon seaver <hseaver@nyx10.cs.du.edu>
> To: marthur@gibbs.oit.unc.edu
> Cc: vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu
> Subject: Re: #1 firing position on 009? (2.0 l FI)
>
> Wait, wait, wait -- you sound majorly confused. First off, I don't notice
> any power curve problem with my 009 in my '73 w/'81 engine, nor did I in
> my '69 bus w/1600 engine (1750cc actually) --- secondly, there can't
> possibly be a difference in firing order, or the thing wouldn't run.
> Thirdly, valve settings have absolutely nothing to do with it.
> However, I don't know that the 009 is going to work real well with
> fuel injection, since the FI computer will want to alter the spark advnce
> as well as the fuel delivery. Perhaps someone has tried it, and it
> doesn't significantly matter. I'd try it.
>
> --
> Harmon Seaver
> hseaver@nyx.cs.du.edu
> seaverh@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu
> hseaver@csd.uwm.edu
>
> All is impermanent, but this too shall pass away, and the way of the
> Samurai is death --- so speak your mind now, or forever hold your peace!
>
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