Acollin
Platinum Level Sponsor
This stuff only make sense to me on a primitive level. I know how to read the meters and make adjustments , but what they actually do
/mean separately and together is a bit magical to me.
I have been tinkering around my 66 series V ( mostly stock) and started wondering a bit. Currently my spark plug gap is .013 and my dwell angle is about 56 degrees. I know that .015 is where my point gap is supposed to be and 60 degrees is what my dwell angle is supposed to be. I know these numbers should be dialed in before one times the car about 8 degrees btdc.
My current questions are:
1) if I widen my points to .015 and change my dwell angle to 60 degrees, how much of an effect will I see/ feel?
2) by changing this numbers a little over or under what the spec sheets want, how will my car respond?
3) are there safe parameters ex: how low or how high can these numbers go before one does damage or the car will run poorly or not at all?
Thanks for schooling me . tons more to learn.
Andrew
/mean separately and together is a bit magical to me.
I have been tinkering around my 66 series V ( mostly stock) and started wondering a bit. Currently my spark plug gap is .013 and my dwell angle is about 56 degrees. I know that .015 is where my point gap is supposed to be and 60 degrees is what my dwell angle is supposed to be. I know these numbers should be dialed in before one times the car about 8 degrees btdc.
My current questions are:
1) if I widen my points to .015 and change my dwell angle to 60 degrees, how much of an effect will I see/ feel?
2) by changing this numbers a little over or under what the spec sheets want, how will my car respond?
3) are there safe parameters ex: how low or how high can these numbers go before one does damage or the car will run poorly or not at all?
Thanks for schooling me . tons more to learn.
Andrew