Timing on 620" BBC
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I ll get the ball rolling for the other guys to chime in, What head are You running, I hear the ones with the smaller chambers use less timing,Anyone? I run 37 now on a 572 conventional head.
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i have a 632 with 14 degree big chief heads on gas...it likes 34.
as they say start off conservative and work up...i will go out on a limb and say 32 would be a ( extra) safe place to start and go from there if it were mine and no dyno records to show sweet spot with timing
Brian
as they say start off conservative and work up...i will go out on a limb and say 32 would be a ( extra) safe place to start and go from there if it were mine and no dyno records to show sweet spot with timing
Brian
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I used to put my gas motors around 39-40, on the dyno last year my motor shop at the time started at 32. I sat back and just watched sure enough it made more hp at 34 then at 39. Every motor is different
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Re: Timing on 620" BBC
Originally Posted by lmchevy
Where would you run your timing on a 14.8-1 620" BBC and be safe.It is carburated on gas and n/a.Thanks
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Re: timing
Originally Posted by lmchevy
Tcarda i probably could go and put it on a chassis dyno.
my advise is save your time and money on the chassis dyno for this purpose.
Brian
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Re: timing
Originally Posted by bjuice
Originally Posted by lmchevy
Tcarda i probably could go and put it on a chassis dyno.
my advise is save your time and money on the chassis dyno for this purpose.
Brian
Wouldn't the chasis dyno still allow you to see a gain or a loss from a timing adjustment? I mean, regardless of what it is making at the crankshaft, if it is showing say 500 hp 400 ft lbs on the chasis dyno, and you advance the timing 1 or two degrees, then run it again, take a reading,then retard it and run it again..take another reading...wouldn't this allow you to find the timing that makes the most power?
Regardless if the hp numbers are bogus...as long as they are consistantly bogus...wouldn't that allow you to find the tune up?
Not arguing here...just asking.