 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Car Forum / MINI / August 2003Stage 1 Tuning
Hi all My neighbour has just had a stage 1 kit fitted and is a bit miffed cos the power seems the same as before when driving. The car is a F plate 1000cc Saloon It has been fitted with an RC40, K&N Filter and supposedly a new needle I would like to know if any of you have any ideas on:- 1) which needle is best suited (currently AAU) 2) what the timing should be set at 3) what the mixture should be Would much appreciate a quick answer. Cheers all!!! > Hi all > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Would much appreciate a quick answer. > Cheers all!!! The needles supplied in stage one kits are rarely the right ones, they will however get the car up and running so you can get it to a Rolling road.. this is the only place where you can quickly and easily sort the correct needle out... Timing, well your aiming to get full advance being in at around 3500rpm. - Time it at 30deg BTDC at 3500 rpm - This does assume that the advance curve in your distributor is right - which it probably isnt! The rolling road will swing the distributor in to set up the timing at full advance, but they may not be tailoring the advance curve to suit your particular engine... HTH, Dave |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2009 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.