Re: RE: pinging and arcing observations

From: default (nospam@nowhere.net)
Date: Sun Mar 03 2002 - 11:26:26 EST


Ronald Wong wrote:

> That ping is like a hammer beating on top of the piston.

I totally agree, bugs the hell out of me, trying to fix it. :)

> Keep your wires away from your headers. They'll mess up the best of wires.

I've spent a lot of time with looms and things keeping the wires all tidy.
They're as far as I can get them from the headers, too hot.

> The stock gap for your plugs should be .040 to get the most complete burn
> within your cylinder.

Why would that gap cause a more complete burn? The way I understand it, it
takes more potential to bridge a larger gap, so the spark's hotter. I think the
MSD wires have way less resistance than the stock ones, the arcs to the block
are obviously way hotter/louder than stock, so isn't the spark also hotter
because of the wires? My theory is the smaller gap (cooler spark) and the wires
(hotter) kinda cancel each other out, with the advantage that it doesn't arc to
the block. I'm really just guessing, seems to work.

> Other things to check would be your TB and the sensors that are a part of
> it.

I'd like to reindex the distributor and check the tps voltage (per Bernd)
today. I guess I can clean the IAT (also per Bernd I think).

mike



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