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On 29 May 2001, at 17:47, Keelan Glenn wrote: > My question is this, my 009 only provides 10 degrees of advance it > seems, so, now that its timed to 30 on the advance at idle it's off the > scale on the fan/pulley...is this dangerous? I hear no pinging, and the car > runs wonderfully with a lot of pep, but I'd like to be sure. Any wisdom > would be appreciated. Thanks for all the help so far. I suspect that you misunderstood the recommendation that you were given. What you might want to try is to set the timing so that the maximum advance (at high RPM) is 30 deg BTDC. Once you have done this you can see what the idle timing is and just set it there, at idle, in the future. Setting it to 30 deg BTDC at idle will give way you too much advance at speed. While this may seem good, this much advance will be very hard on your engine. While extreme amounts of advance often seem to perform well, This is SO much that I'm surprised that this runs as well as you say. Fix this right away as this can be really hard on your engine. - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org