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Right, I have a GTE with a ****ty K&N and a backbox, everything else is standard. Since I bought the car its been pinking. So I've fiddled around with the timing and the idle speed.
The standard setting is 10 degrees?
I had it on 20 degress because it was still pinking at top end.
I have now moved it to 23 degrees, to see if it runs any better.
Am I in risk of damaging the engine?
Is it the K&N ****ing my **** up?!
Cheers :thumb:
I should of mentioned I also replaced the ignition module and the coil. As the old coil was ****ing the ignition module.
The ignition modeule is standard, the coil is one I had laying about, I think its from and old jag or merc.
going from 10 degrees BTDC to 20 degrees BTDC is advancing it, retarding it should be spinning the top of the dizzy cap towards the rad.
yup, its advanced.
standard to any retard makes things worse.
retarding it should solve pinking not make it worse :confused:
yep retarding the ignition would cure pinking. advancing it will make it worse.
are you sure its pinking your hearing
Mine has a pinking rattle that i've put down to just being a rattle too, maybe it's an E16SE thing lolQuote:
Originally Posted by burgo
Could be too far advanced I guess. However when I ran it on the standard 10 degrees it was cack.
When its running on 20 degrees it runs decent unless I take it over 5k revs. Then I seem to lose power and torque and I get a dodgey pinking noise.
It seems to run better hardcore advanced (although I will try it again at 10 degerees), I guess the questions I'm asking is
Is it ok to run it at 23 degrees (advanced)?
and
What would cause poor running on a standard timing setting?
Or would it be better to try 17 degreees?
Right just taken it for a little spin. I've lost the pinking noise above 5k revs but it still seems to lose power around and beyond 5k. I'm going to try retarding it a little bit say back to 17 degrees. Could it be a tooth out on the cam belt?
Anyone got any ideas? Im starting to think these E16SE engines are a pile of cack compaired to carb.
it could be a tooth out, which would explain why the dizzy timing isn't right
are you also disconnecting the advacing stuff (sorry don't know if its a vacuum tube or wiring on the gte) when you time it
Apparantley there isn't any on the E16SE. I'll bust out the haynes in a min and double check though. Cheers Jon, will check the cambelt at some point too.
who told you that? lol
it must have some kind of advancing, unless its just there isn't a way to disconnect it
doesnt the ecu control the advance retard on those engines ?
theres nothing physical you can pull off the dizzy.