Hey,

I'm just wondering how many degrees I can advance my timing on my L28E before I start to decrease power. I don't really care about high way fuel economy stuff, just poke off the line and overall power!

I'm hoping this is a cheap and effective way to make power, a mate advanced the timing in his pulsar by 2 degrees and it flies now!


Any help is appreciated!
Jayson

You will only get a gain if the timing is not already optimised.
Hard to give an exact number of timing to use because it depends on several variables. The cheapest way to do it is advance it, test, check for pinging, advance, etc until it pings If you are not sure what pinging is, then ask a mechanic or a knowledgeable mate to point it out and explain the mechanics of fuel quality on fuel burn and ignition advance. I think detonation/pinging is best explained with a real life example.

Too much timing (regardless of the fuel) can be bad and damage the engine.

That should get you started.. come back with more questions

Thanks alot!

Engine wouldn't have been tuned already because it hasn't even been fired up yet, I'll let you know tomorrow!