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TECH ZONE Article - Ignition Timing and Settings
Monday, March 17, 2008 |  Printer Friendly
March 18, 2007: The TECH ZONE article "Your Engine's Ignition and Timing Settings" has been re-written and posted to the website. This article explains how your ignition system works, the various components, adjustments, and other valuable information. With so many websites around the world linked to our original article from the previous website, and then noticing the amount of traffic over the last week trying to find it, we made it a priority to get the new article finished and in place for our guests and customers.
The new location for the article is found here: http://www.centuryperformance.com/static_pages.php?pageid=219
Ignition Timing can be a tricky experience and there are some things you need to know about your engine and how ignition timing actually works. Hopefully this section will give you some insight into timing curves, changing mechanical and vacuum advance settings and more. What is the Ignition System?Your ignition system is the part of your vehicle/engine that fires, or ignites, the compressed fuel and air mixture within your engine. The system combines a primary voltage delivery to the ignition coil and electronic control units and secondary voltage released from the coil travels through the distributor, out through the plug wires, to the spark plugs where it jumps the gap and ignites the mixture. Yes, I know there are Magneto Systems that do not rely on primary voltage as well as D.I.S. Ignitions (Distributorless Ignition System) that do not have a distributor, just an assortment of computer-controlled coil packs. For the sake of the fact that MOST of the ignitions in service and in our racing and performance vehicles today are not the latter descriptions, I have not taken excessive time or detail to describe them in this article. |
Your ignition system consists of supply voltage (in most cases a 12-volt battery), an on/off switch (your ignition switch), a spinning portion of your distributor (or crank trigger) that houses a triggering device, an ignition coil to deliver 20,000-50,000 volts of secondary voltage, spark plugs, and spark plug wires to get the current to the plugs. .... please go to the article for the rest
http://www.centuryperformance.com/static_pages.php?pageid=219
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