Gramma's Car: the new project!

[njsteve]

I spoke with the tech people at Cloyes and the 9-3512X9 timing set I ordered from Summit will hopefully do the trick. The nine-position gear has a "+2" positon that is 1/4 the distance from 0 that the "+4" position is on my old gear.

On the Cloyes gear, that "+4" position that is on my old gear is actually stamped as "+8". He indicated that is how their gears are stamped: with the actual correction factor, so the final result will be two degrees not four.





Fingers crossed...waiting on the UPS guy now.

[njsteve]

Well, here's today's lesson in "You Get What You Pay For".

The Cloyes true roller set arrived today. Slipped it on in the "+2" position and voila! Perfect 3 degrees BTDC and 109 degrees intake centerline to match the cam card. I was all giddy - I just kept repeating the calculations and spinning the engine and doing it again and again just to make sure I was not hallucinating. I guess there's a reason they charge $100 for the timing set!

Now we can finally get to buttoning up this monstrosity.