Help-having an Oh **** tuning moment

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I was twisting a distributor two days ago with a timing light in my left hand while watching a vacuum gauge. Still relevant tuning methods. The 429 really likes 20° advanced but not so much on the restart.

I had a choke cable rigged to the distributor on my olds 455 for starting purposes. Keep the bolt snug but not tight and check regularly. Lol
Ended up buying a high torque starter and huge battery, then upgraded cables after smoking the stock ones

 

[Kevin81]

I was twisting a distributor two days ago with a timing light in my left hand while watching a vacuum gauge. Still relevant tuning methods. The 429 really likes 20° advanced but not so much on the restart.

My go to is to run a stretched out spring in the dizzy, so that total timing is in at a lower rpm, I like 2,500. Changes the entire way those old v8s drives.

 

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[jtreber]

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Way back when, I was running a chev sb 406 with 12.5 to 1. The Rhoads lifters raised the cylinder pressure so high that made it impossible to start hot. Competition Cams special ground a cam for me with more over lap and solved the problem with no loss in power.