How to Build & Power Tune Distributor-Type Ignition Systems - 3rd Edition

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Item # MB-41867  ISBN: 9781845841867




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This book includes expert tricks and techniques on building, modifying and setting up ignition systems for high-performance engines, and explains—in simple language—how to optimize your engine's ignition system performance and reliability.

Plus, it shows you how to find the best static/idle and full-advance ignition timing and rate of timing advance for your modified engine.

Table of Contents:

• Essential Information
• Using this Book
• Introduction
• Ignition Timing Theory
• Modified Engines Often Need Higher Ignition Timing Settings
• Static & Idle Speed Ignition Timing Settings
• Estimating Total Advance Settings
• Vacuum Advance
• Ignition Timing Marks
• Distributor Basics
• Altering the Rate of Mechanical Advance
• Altering Advance Mechanism to Set Total Ignition Timing
• Checking the Quality of the Spark
• Establishing the Correct Idle Advance
• Establishing Ideal Total Ignition Timing
• Index

Applies to all 4-stroke engines using a distributor-type ignition system.

Note: this manual DOES NOT cover ECU-controlled distributorless systems.

How to Build & Power Tune Distributor-Type Ignition Systems - 3rd Edition