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Old Dec 18, 2005 | 09:07 AM
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Question on Timing?

Installed a new MSD Distributor, I set the timing a 12BTDC, not 10BTDC, read a post on hear for performance reasons that you could get a little extra out of our Trucks and this was a free modification. Truck seems to be running great, no starting problems, or acceleration problems. My question is I have a custom Diable Chip installed, does this chip not already advance my timing a bit? and should I just put the timing back to the stock setting of 10BTDC? I thought maybe the acceleration might even be better at the stock setting.
 
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Old Dec 18, 2005 | 12:20 PM
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Ideally, the timing should be advanced as far as it can without causing pinging. As long as it isn't pinging under loads, I'd leave it be.
 
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Old Dec 20, 2005 | 12:04 AM
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No pinging, when I was setting it up, at 13 BTDC and a little before it I had pinging, at 12 nothing, seems to accelerate great. Thanx for the input.
 
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