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Re: [T3] Ignition Timing


On 6 Mar 2003 at 1:49, Shad Laws wrote:

> It's not as much as you think... if it were such a major problem, then the
> flywheel endplay of a typical modern EFI engine would play hell with the
> flywheel-mounted crank position sensor, but it doesn't.

That would be, as you mentioned earlier, because these magnets are mounted at a 
much larger radius. The magnetic field error would amount to only a small amout 
of the total circumference of the flywheel circle. That is why this is done on 
the flywheel rather than in the distributor.

-- 
Jim Adney
jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711-3054
USA

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