81 SC sputtering/small backfires
08-05-2009, 12:57 PM
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This is an 81 you say ? definitely no vacum advance. can you post a couple of pics of the engine further back ?
Anyone else have an 81 with similar confiuration ?
Anyone else have an 81 with similar confiuration ?
08-05-2009, 01:54 PM
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In 101 projects book it talks about upgrading to a bosch distributor, and the picture in the book looks like mine without any hookups for a vacuum tube. This may be the upgrade.
08-05-2009, 04:08 PM
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hmmm...the SC should have two vacuum lines in fact. You can check with a timing light. If the timing is within spec, then you can move on down the list.
08-05-2009, 04:30 PM
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The Bentley manual specifies advance with the vacuum hoses disconnected. I have my timing set to the Bentley specs, but I did not disconnect the vacuum hoses because I don't have them. I'm curious to know how the vacuum hoses affect the timing on other distributors. If I adjust my timing to the Bentley manual, I won't be getting any of the changes that re-connecting vacuum hoses might bring to the normal distributors.
If re-connecting the vacuum hoses is supposed to bring a change to the timing say another 5 degrees, then my timing would be 5 degrees off. I'll look around for timing specs for distributors without vacuum hoses.
- Andrew
If re-connecting the vacuum hoses is supposed to bring a change to the timing say another 5 degrees, then my timing would be 5 degrees off. I'll look around for timing specs for distributors without vacuum hoses.
- Andrew
08-05-2009, 05:11 PM
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The Bentley manual specifies advance with the vacuum hoses disconnected. I have my timing set to the Bentley specs, but I did not disconnect the vacuum hoses because I don't have them. I'm curious to know how the vacuum hoses affect the timing on other distributors. If I adjust my timing to the Bentley manual, I won't be getting any of the changes that re-connecting vacuum hoses might bring to the normal distributors.
If re-connecting the vacuum hoses is supposed to bring a change to the timing say another 5 degrees, then my timing would be 5 degrees off. I'll look around for timing specs for distributors without vacuum hoses.
- Andrew
If re-connecting the vacuum hoses is supposed to bring a change to the timing say another 5 degrees, then my timing would be 5 degrees off. I'll look around for timing specs for distributors without vacuum hoses.
- Andrew
08-05-2009, 05:30 PM
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Time for Pete or Steve to chime in ..
I think the advance is actually performed by a couple of centrifugal weights in the distributor. I also thnk the second vacuum line ( the SC does have a single vacuum line up till about 80 , them it changed to 2 ) i think is just for emmisions during starting. Sounds like yours has definitely been modded. Does anyone know if the euro cars used vacuum advance lines ? a euro PET would tell us to.
I think the advance is actually performed by a couple of centrifugal weights in the distributor. I also thnk the second vacuum line ( the SC does have a single vacuum line up till about 80 , them it changed to 2 ) i think is just for emmisions during starting. Sounds like yours has definitely been modded. Does anyone know if the euro cars used vacuum advance lines ? a euro PET would tell us to.
08-05-2009, 06:11 PM
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web browser search parameters:
[site:Pelicanparts.com "911 SC" "advance curve"]
"Early_s_man" "roninlb"
Here is an advance curve posted by RoninLB. I can't vouch for the accuracy, and I no longer have an SC to test or verify this with:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?t=181402
[site:Pelicanparts.com "911 SC" "advance curve"]
"Early_s_man" "roninlb"
Here is an advance curve posted by RoninLB. I can't vouch for the accuracy, and I no longer have an SC to test or verify this with:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?t=181402
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08-05-2009, 08:21 PM
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Just for kicks and giggles humor me. Tonight start the car in the garage and let it idle, pop the engine lid and shut the lights in the garage. If you see any sparks escaping from the wires near your distributor, your wires are shot.
My car needed wires and was running like crap, I changed the pickup coil in the distributor, the rotor, cap, wires, and plugs and it completely transformed the car. I took it one step further and removed the smog blower, that made the car run cooler, removed the cat, installed a bypass pipe and richened the mixture to 2.75% gas from 0.7%. The car runs very cool in operating temp, has lots of power, idles much smoother and does not suffer from idle hunting with the A/C on when the clutch is pressed in.
Check those ignition wires in the dark.
My car needed wires and was running like crap, I changed the pickup coil in the distributor, the rotor, cap, wires, and plugs and it completely transformed the car. I took it one step further and removed the smog blower, that made the car run cooler, removed the cat, installed a bypass pipe and richened the mixture to 2.75% gas from 0.7%. The car runs very cool in operating temp, has lots of power, idles much smoother and does not suffer from idle hunting with the A/C on when the clutch is pressed in.
Check those ignition wires in the dark.
08-05-2009, 08:36 PM
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I checked them a couple weeks ago in the dark and didn't see any sparks. My wires are the stainless braided shielded type, is it possible they are just arcing to the shielding and making the shorts undetectable?