Re: valve and ignition timing

[<skippatnode@domain.elided>]

The purists are going to scream on this one!!  Just pull the plug wires out of the cap and move them to the opposite side.  That will take you from 180 out to dead on the money.
There is no compensated cam in that distributor so any hole will fire any cylinder as long as the rotor button in pointing at that hole and that cylinder is in the firing position. (compression stroke, both valves closed, near top dead center)
Skip
67 Duetto
Norfolk, Va.

Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 23:34:45 -0500
From: "Ed & Marsha Prytherch" <mred2u@domain.elided>
Subject: valve and ignition timing

>I am rebuilding my 79 spider engine. I have timed the cams with a degree disc attached in place of the flywheel, but the distributor is 180 degrees out. The coupling on the end of the distributor shaft seems to prevent it from being rotated through 180. Can I just rotate the distributor cap
through 180 or do I have to re-do the valve timing?>
Thanks.
Ed Prytherch, Columbia SC
73 GTV
79 Spider
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