RE: Ignition Timing

["Hall, Ricky L" <ricky.l.hall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The MSD 8388 distributor instructions said to run as much initial timing as you can without knocking.  My 318 Poly with auto trans I have set at:  

Timing: 15 BTDC  Initial / 36 Total / Advance curve @ 2,500rpm


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From: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jimmy Peavy
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 4:41 PM
To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Ignition Timing

I like 35 degrees total timing.

Jimmy

On 9/17/17, 'Paul L.   http://1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/ml-le' via
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> I've heard some differing info over the years on ignition timing.  I 
> was talking to MO recently, and the guy who set up his distributor on 
> his machine made the comment that setting "x" was all wrong for a 
> manual transmission.  So I'm wondering if there is a difference in 
> what you do for
>
> manual vs. automatic.  Right now I've got mine set at 32* BTDC all in 
> at @ 2500.  This is 440 primarily street driven car with a bit of a 
> cam.  I had been running with the vacuum advance plugged off.  I 
> recently checked the timing because I was able to borrow a timing 
> light.  I had a crappy one when I set it before.  It was retarded 
> about 8* so more like 25* BTDC.  So I reset it and the result was that 
> it seemed to run a little better but I had developed a slight bog from 
> a stop.  So I'm wondering where I should go
>
> from here?   Should I hook up the vacuum advance and reset the total
> advance?  BTW it didn't seem to make any difference on my issue with 
> running hot in town
>
> Paul L.
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