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Originally Posted by rwest
If anyone is still following my “adventure”, I am starting to feel like I’m making progress now.
When I first put the system in, I didn’t get any advance showing on my timing light, but since I was new to this whole electronic ignition and the internet was saying that many timing lights won’t work with EDIS, so I just assumed it was advancing and you know what they say about assuming?
Another thread got me thinking again about the advancing or lack thereof. I reached out to Jamie Novak as he had responded to that thread and made some interesting points. So between Jamie, Al, myself, my timing light and my oscilloscope, we concluded that the ECU wasn’t right for my car- Al immediately sent me a different unit (this is exactly why I bought my system from him!) and now I have advance.
Jamie also noted that it appeared my ITBS weren’t balanced at higher RPMs- my flow gauges proved him right- I had thought that I had gotten them balanced originally, but apparently I hadn’t or something changed the setting.
A test drive afterwards really felt much better and is helping me get my eagerness back- I think I was actually getting depressed by tuning, driving, tuning, driving and never getting anywhere along with zero luck finding a local dyno tuner.
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Wow - great to hear, Rutager! I'm curious how you figured out that you weren't advancing - what symptoms did you have? I haven't trusted my timing light since the get go, for the same reasons you noted, and as a result, given your progress, I'm thinking I need to get some checking done as well. Thanks for any insights you might have.
Best,
Bert