Ever seen one of these?

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  1. HandyAndy

    HandyAndy Well-Known Member

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    Dial in your ignition timing....?
    Novel idea - for the 70's.
     
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    works off of carb linkage to advance or retard? .... seems simple enough
     
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    HandyAndy Well-Known Member

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    I'm thinking it may have hooked into the Duraspark II system somehow.
    Or perhaps they were used with that variable venturi carb, the 7200.
     
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    This interests me. Must find out more. Like Johnny Five, I nEEd InPut!!!
     
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    Mmmmm, looks like something that comes off my Dura Spark mod. I have no clue what it dose. Anytime I have unplugged it, the car did not run funny or any different that I could tell.
     
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    :rofl2::rofl2:...number 5 ...alive!!......:rofl2:


    Andy?????did ya buy it??....pretty cool gidget;)
     
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    HandyAndy Well-Known Member

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    Hey if I bought every gadget that came along I'd be broke.
    Oh, wait a minute... :slap: I am broke.
     
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    ModelT1 Still Lost in the 50's

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    :slap:Is that why I'm broke?:(
     
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    Mr. Gasket sold Dial-Advance at least 40 years ago, nothing new,
    old-old cars all had it.
    My friend made his own timing adjustment device, cut a hole in the firewall and reached through and turned the distributor to advance or retard the timing while going down the drag strip.:)
     
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    ModelT1 Still Lost in the 50's

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    Danged---he had to be a good driver!:clap:
     
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    i had a car once that the timing was giving me a fit so i hooked an old choke cable to it so i could adjust it on the fly. once i set it right i just locked it down and took the cable off. it was a 74 monte.
     
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    :rofl2:...thats brilliant !!!....in a disturbing way:rofl2:
     
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    what??????? got the idea from like a 29 model a
     
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    I used the choke cable also on a '81 c-10 I put a 327 in back in high school. Reason I had to was because I over tightened a rocker arm and rounded a exhaust lobe on the cam (at 17 this was my first experience with this) so if you got the timing where it would run good, it was hard to start. If the timing was where it started easy it would pop and spit through the carb. My dad showed me to retard the distributor to start than advance it after it started so we run the choke cable to it...pull it to start, push it in and run like hell :clap:
     

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