Stock 360 output

Would probably help if I had a proper dial back timing light, at the moment I’m working with an old fixed timing light and masking tape on the balancer for the additional advance. Got a bit hectic last night after the big coolant leak, otherwise I could have experimented a bit more.

At 20 initial it is getting a little harder to start, so messing with the advance springs is the next course of action I guess.

I have ordered a Holley Sniper for it, so that will give me something else to play with, maybe I can use it to control the timing as well.

I'll just drop this here as well:



Plan is to initially set it up on the performer with a 1" open spacer.

I'm still thinking about a cam swap once it's up and running, so that would be a good opportunity to put the Torker on. Also saving the valve spring upgrade until after any cam swap so that I can break it in on the stock springs.

Masking tape on the damper has been working for me, but it tends to fall off, so maybe something a little more permanent would be the go (15mm = 10 deg).

Dial back timing light that displays RPM as well would really help to be able to see when the actual advance curve. Handheld controller on the Sniper might do the trick as far as giving me a tacho I can see from the engine bay   

One of the great features of the Sniper is the data logging capability which records all of the system parameters for you and you can review these on a PC, pity you can't playback on the handheld though for more immediate use. You can hook the system up to a PC rather than the handheld though if you want a bit more capability in this area.

Here is my first run from last night, 15.205 @ 93.76 mph, last I looked a stand alone data logger like this would cost nearly as much as the Sniper):



Pretty much on par for last time out, but what's very obvious from the chart (TPS line) is that I wasn't hitting full throttle. I pretty much figured this out without reviewing that data, but it is nice to see confirmation.

By run 3, I'd got it down to 14.674 @ 95.72 mph with full throttle through 2nd and 3rd gears, not sure what's going on if first, maybe I just need to stand on the pedal a little harder:



Maybe someone more knowledgeable than me can give some insight into the data, seems like maybe it's going a little lean off the line.

Full set of times and a new PB of 14.415 @ 95.9 mph on the last run:



Run 4, didn't get full throttle in 2nd and ran slower.

Run 5, added some more timing since I've still got some work to do there. Did notice that the coolant temperature was pushing 220 after messing around with the timing, red lit as well as not on the throttle hard enough, so not a good run.

Next two runs were much better, although I did push it a bit too hard on run 6 and had valve bounce at the gear changes. Somehow I managed to knock the SD card out of the handheld unit so wasn't able to log any data on the last 2 runs.

Still lots to learn.

New PB first run off the trailer 14.245 @ 97.95, but couldn't match that for the rest of the night, next best was 14.307 @ 96.92. At least it's still headed in the right direction.