Just a tad advanced.

[HemiDreams]

Finally got a chance to see what was up with the detonation and pinging in the 66. My roomate and i put a timing light on it and it was 20 degrees advanced. [smilie=e: And when we pulled the vacuum advance hose off we noticed there was no vacuum at that particular port. [smilie=e: Switched it to another port and set it at about 9-10 degrees and voila. Stand on it as hard as you want and no more pinging and detonation. Wonder who the he!! tuned this thing before us. [smilie=e: [smilie=s:

 

[XLR8R]

The same idiots that did the resto, I am guessing. [smilie=e:

 

[HemiDreams]

Resto is a too strong a word for this car. I would use words such as "polished turd" or "cobbled together" myself. I showed it to a guy that owns a bigtime hotrod bodyshop i do clean ups for and his 1st words were "nice paint" THEN he took a look under the car. All i could here was "what the.....ummmmmm......wow......errrrrrr......this is.....hmmmmmm".

 

[Dr.Jass]

...when we pulled the vacuum advance hose off we noticed there was no vacuum at that particular port...

Uh, there shouldn't be any vacuum to the distributor at idle... only when the throttle is cracked open. [smilie=e: If you have vacuum to the distributor at idle, your idle will end up erratic.

When I got my LeBaron, the guy I bought it from had the initial timing set at [i]31? BTDC[/i]--and it had both vacuum and mechanical advance. I didn't have the guts to check what the full advance was with everything "in". He even wrote it in paint marker on top of the air cleaner. [smilie=e:

 

[b-body-bob]

Dunno if this is right or not, but I set my timing this afternoon so I've got 30-35 degrees at 3000 RPM. Then I revved it on up to make sure that's all the advance there is. I don't have my vacuum advance connected.