Re: It's all about timing

[Night Shadow <soltwede@ucsub.colorado.edu>]

Hey John, how far are you from Two Rivers, and when are you coming to
Colorado again?

Eric


On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, John Van Vuren wrote:

> Hang on a minute... lemme get this straight.  Your car was pinging with the
> timing set at 5 degrees, but is better/faster with the timing at 8?  Makes
> no sense to me....
> 
> John
> 
> '87 16v Scirocco
> and lots of other stuff
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> 
> >well I finally got around to correctly adjust my timing. When i bought the
> >car the timing was set at 20 degrees! I put it to 6(stock) but it ran like
> >dog poop.  so i put it to `5 and it ran fine until a few days ago when it
> >started pinging and the rev limiter would kick in at about 6000. I knew
> that
> >I should be able to pull hard through redline with the schricks. So
> >yesterday I adjusted it to 8 degrees on the advice of my local scirocco
> guru
> >and I must say that my car is feeling schweet!  pulls hard to redline and
> >acclerates better than ever. I raced and beat my friends corrado slc with
> >filter and chip by at least 2 cars lengths and I kept pulling on him.  just
> >thought I'd share.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Rich Deede
> >1988 Scirocco 2.0 16v
> >1987 Scirocco 16v- R.I.P.
> >
> >
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