Edelbrock 600 (1406) & 6p 13B

Rogue_Wulff · 10-09-2008, 01:46 PM

LOL. This will have you scratching your head, or laughing.....
I *finally* got the timing dialed in good enough to make it run. I think the mechanical advance is frozen, so I have to run excessive initial timing to make it pull hard on the upper end, and this causes a poor idle quality. Once I got the leading dialed in, I hooked the trailing back up. This induced massive misfiring, so I swapped the trailing plug wires, which cured it. With leading going coil to plug with the direct fire, the trailing is now running thru the leading holes of the dizzy cap. L1 goes to T2, and L2 to T1. I know it's totally wrong, but it works. I don't want go thru the whole proceedure again, just to get the trailing set "correctly" at the cap.
I'll do that once I get the pulley set right and free up the mechanical advance.

As for the Nikki setup, normally, the "Timed" port is usually found on the spacer under the carb, 2nd from front. However, most carb base gaskets supplied with carb overhaul kits block the passage between the carb base and spacer, rendering this port useless. I have made several 12A's run better, and get improved MPG, by simply removing the carb, and either removing the gasket, or cutting a hole in it where the passage is blocked.

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10-09-2008, 01:46 PM	#19
Rogue_Wulff Non Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 310 Rep Power: 18	LOL. This will have you scratching your head, or laughing..... I finally got the timing dialed in good enough to make it run. I think the mechanical advance is frozen, so I have to run excessive initial timing to make it pull hard on the upper end, and this causes a poor idle quality. Once I got the leading dialed in, I hooked the trailing back up. This induced massive misfiring, so I swapped the trailing plug wires, which cured it. With leading going coil to plug with the direct fire, the trailing is now running thru the leading holes of the dizzy cap. L1 goes to T2, and L2 to T1. I know it's totally wrong, but it works. I don't want go thru the whole proceedure again, just to get the trailing set "correctly" at the cap. I'll do that once I get the pulley set right and free up the mechanical advance. As for the Nikki setup, normally, the "Timed" port is usually found on the spacer under the carb, 2nd from front. However, most carb base gaskets supplied with carb overhaul kits block the passage between the carb base and spacer, rendering this port useless. I have made several 12A's run better, and get improved MPG, by simply removing the carb, and either removing the gasket, or cutting a hole in it where the passage is blocked.