Thanks heaps Shaun, yehh I bought a 32/36 dgv and the manifold together for 100 off eBay, rebuilt the carb and got the manifold shaved and ported and smoothed on the inside and a decent amount of Headwork and a good exhaust system. Electronic ignition and yehh. It revs to 4000 easy and then it slowly pulls to 5000. The Mac iv had it was when I did a bit of a skid in the wet and held it in first at a steady 5300ish. Nothing broke which was good :) the carby is tuned pretty good, and timing should be okay as I got TAS to do that. But i get a timing gun and have a look and put it at 12degrees. And what do you mean by snappy?

Thanks heaps.

101 at the wheels on 98. Twin 45's

And iv also got the flywheel lightened by a fair bit, would that make a difference?

Righto, I'm getting my hands on a timing light off a friend. And I will have a look at the timing. I have never adjusted the timing on a car before, so would somone be kindly enought to right a detailed reply of how to? And what to do if It pings when I change it and whatever else there is to know?

Thanks.

Also! I had a look in the megregors book, and it says;

1.6 engine:
Manual: 12deg btdc at 500rpm
Auto: 6deg btdc at 500rpm.

When I got it Dyno tuned at tas, it was auto, and they did the carby and timing, so I'm guessing he would of put at at 6deg, I just gave him a call and the guy who did it is away and will be back Monday. So I'm hoping it'd be at about 6deg so I can put it to 12deg and hopefully notice a difference. :)

Brandon.

My 1.6 reved to about 6/6500ish made 63rwhp through the 4spd
Was pretty cool had a mild cam 32/36 webber lil bit of port work and an exhaust... Sounded good for wat it was went well... Slow... But went well

My 1.6 reved to about 6/6500ish made 63rwhp through the 4spd
Was pretty cool had a mild cam 32/36 webber lil bit of port work and an exhaust... Sounded good for wat it was went well... Slow... But went well

Rightoooo, I bought a timing light and had a look, plugged up the dizzy advance hose thingo and had a look and the mark on the harmonic balancer looks to be at about 16deg? The 1600 block only goes up 12 but it's past that. So is this bad? It doesn't ping that I know of, could this be causing it to not be as snappy and not rev high or should I be seeing better results from it being at 16deg? :/ not really sure aye... Please help??

Brandon.

Now you have a timing light you can drop it back to 12 and try, if its worse take back to 16.
 

Good idea! What way Do I turn the dizzy to retard it? And is there anything else I need to know other then loosening the dizzy abit and then put the timing light on and turn it till it's on 12. Then stop the motor and tighten the dizzy? I know the vac advance line has to be plugged up but is there anythig else?

Thanks heaps people for the input.
Brandon.