Vacuum Advance and why to use it on the street

[Hemicolt]

"I'm not saying there is never a time or place for either a locked out distributor or an aggressive curve. What I am saying is that it is entirely dependent on the combination.

My $.02 worth of real world experience."


Very well put. A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. These blanket statements saying that "one rule applies" is the wrong thing to be telling people.

It's like the carb. trick he told me about using on the tunnel ram setup. I can't argue if adding the wire to the metering plate will or will not work when it comes to cutting down the fuel at idle.
We will however try this when we run the engine on the dyno. Before and after results will be recorded and I will report the findings for everyone to see. The reason I will try it both ways is because of what was said above. Every combination will require different things.
I'm still thinking the amount of of vac. at idle is going to determine how much fuel is pulled through the idle circut. I may be wrong in the end, but I'm not going to tell everyone you can or can't before trying it first.

To go in and blindly make the modification without testing it both ways is foolish.