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GR8 KAT (Guest)

Thanks for the reply.

I had read somewhere on the internet that most people set it to 9+ initial, you've suggested 16-17 & I've had one other suggestion through TPOC (my POCA chapter), which was between 34-36 (maybe he meant advance??? because that sounds like too much to me).

When I put the light on to measure what I had set by hand, I got a reading of TDC... no wonder I was getting lousy performance! I hadn't read all of the e-mails at the time, so I set it to 8 btdc initial (I didn't measure the advance) & than readjusted the carb.

The car sounds real good and idles well. So I took it for a test ride & got sideways around a corner when the backend broke loose.

I smiled the rest of the way home.

I'm going to leave it at 8 initial for now, for at least 2 tanks of gas to figure out mileage. After that, I'll test advancing it even more.

1/2/0511:18 AM

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