X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 12:02:41 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from smtpauth05.mail.atl.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.65] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c5) with ESMTP id 936461 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sun, 08 May 2005 11:21:55 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=209.86.89.65; envelope-from=aflyer@lazy8.net Received: from [68.15.245.52] (helo=[192.168.0.105]) by smtpauth05.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DUnaf-0000dW-4H for lml@lancaironline.net; Sun, 08 May 2005 11:21:09 -0400 X-Original-Message-ID: <427E2F4E.8030005@lazy8.net> X-Original-Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 09:25:02 -0600 From: John Huft User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Plasma III on Hi Compression Engines - Firewall Install Notes References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: eff62bbb856422fc1aa676d7e74259b793d4f437769de1507965a8bd44c1a4aa36d4be403565b857350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 68.15.245.52 Scott, I don't think this is right. My two run within about 0.25 degrees of each other. You should talk to Klaus about this. My tach reading from the LSE reads100 rpm higher than my digital tach does. John Huft Craig Berland wrote: > /"Scott Krueger AKA Grayhawk wrote: > 25 squared had the left timing displayed at 27 BTDC and the right at > 24.5 BTDC."/ > > Scott, I have enjoyed your info. Question...does LSE believe a > staggered spark timing to be beneficial for power/economy? I was > going to test this at GM but never had the chance. My intuition said > any benefit real or imagined would be hard to measure, but as I > said...I was not able to test. > > /"Scott said:The timing checks indicated a 3 degree retard (instead of > LSE's 5 degree recommendation)."/ > // > I'm willing to bet at a 5 deg retard you are giving up power and fuel > economy. Unless you are detonation sensitive, I would expect no more > than a 2 deg retard on a 27 deg baseline for a 10 to 1 CR motor. I > would be happy with the 3 deg shift. > Craig Berland