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post Jan 9, 2007 - 1:51 AM
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Today me and my friend (who drives a 92 celica GT) went to advance our timing to try and squeeze a few extra hp out of them. His timing was at 12 degrees (cause he already tried to advance it by just moving it without a timing gun) so we moved it to 14 degree with no problem. The stock setting is 10 degrees and with 91 octane fuel, 14 runs well with no pinging.

Now when we went to first check my timing.... I found it was at 0 degrees!!!!! I didn't believe it at first so I tried turning the distributor back down to -5 degrees and then advanced it as far as it would go... only 5 degrees!!!! My car only has 89 octane in it and after advancing it a bit, the engine seemed to run quieter and smoother. I did notice that more torque at 4300rpm (which usually comes at 4700rpm).

How do you get the timing to at least 10 degrees? I've heard that you can remove the distributor and then install it at an angle and then turn it to the mounting position, that should change the range of adjustment from -5 to 5 degrees, to 5 degrees to 15 degrees.

Any one ever seen this before?

Also.... What kind of gas milage do you guys see? I'm currently running at about 19mpg street and 22 highway..... i think thats kind of low.....Maybe because I'm running at 0 degree.... 10 degrees retarted!

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post Jan 12, 2007 - 4:40 AM
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First, I'd like to thank you guys for your input. After fulling removing the distributor and reattaching it, I was able to get the timing to the full 15 degrees. I've found that this runs fine with 91 octane. I found the best way to test it is to get going about 10 mph and then pop it in 5th and floor it... totally stressing the engine. If you hear any chattering, then you've advanced it too much or need higher octane. I haven't even burned a full tank yet, but from what I can see so far, I'm about 3-4mpg more plus I notice some seroius low end torque improvements. I was indeed running retarted at 0 degrees.

Thanks again everyone!

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- king_wsk   Adjusting the ignition timing....   Jan 9, 2007 - 1:51 AM
- - LewFX   or maybe you drive too aggressive!!!   Jan 9, 2007 - 2:03 AM
|- - king_wsk   QUOTE(LewFX @ Jan 9, 2007 - 2:03 AM)...   Jan 9, 2007 - 2:06 AM
- - Bitter   this is odd. are you sure the timing gun is set u...   Jan 9, 2007 - 2:16 AM
- - king_wsk   Yes. Like I said, i'm sure I did everything r...   Jan 9, 2007 - 2:37 AM
- - bufferdan   Timing belt was probably installed wrong when it w...   Jan 9, 2007 - 10:32 AM
- - Batman722   did you bridge the connection in the diagnostic bo...   Jan 9, 2007 - 10:44 AM
|- - Rayme   QUOTE(Batman722 @ Jan 9, 2007 - 11:4...   Jan 9, 2007 - 11:50 AM
- - Bitter   E1 and TE1, jump them with a paperclip. jeeze, i...   Jan 9, 2007 - 2:24 PM
|- - king_wsk   QUOTE(Bitter @ Jan 9, 2007 - 2:24 PM...   Jan 9, 2007 - 3:00 PM
- - Bitter   it is possible that your timing belt is a tooth of...   Jan 9, 2007 - 3:11 PM
- - WannabeGT4   I don't know for sure but I'm still going ...   Jan 9, 2007 - 4:00 PM
|- - presure2   QUOTE(WannabeGT4 @ Jan 9, 2007 - 4:0...   Jan 9, 2007 - 5:01 PM
- - Bitter   that may be true, however he should still have mor...   Jan 9, 2007 - 4:09 PM
- - king_wsk   This car actually isn't from CA... I bought it...   Jan 9, 2007 - 6:07 PM
- - WannabeGT4   Since the 5SFE is a slave style DOHC the exhaust c...   Jan 10, 2007 - 1:30 AM
- - king_wsk   First, I'd like to thank you guys for your inp...   Jan 12, 2007 - 4:40 AM
|- - Rayme   QUOTE(king_wsk @ Jan 12, 2007 - 5:40...   Jan 12, 2007 - 12:54 PM
- - Bitter   glad you got it fixed!   Jan 12, 2007 - 12:45 PM


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