Rb26 Timing Marks

[Mark-32]

Ok so I got my car running again after re-fitting the head. Im just trying to set the base timing on the cas.

Just have a quick question regarding the marks on the harmonic balancer

I plugged my laptop into my vipec ecu and it tells me the base timing should be set at 20 degrees.

On my harmonic balancer there are 7 slots.

If standing in front of the car looking down on the balancer, reading the slots from left to right - is the first slot 0 degrees?

Like this?

slots- I I I I I I I

degrees- 0 5 10 15 20 25 30

[Simon-S14]

yup.. thats it

[Mark-32]

Thanks man.

Because I havnt had the car back on the dyno since geting it going again, would I be right in thinking I should slightly retard it and set it at like 17 or 18 degrees until i get it back on a dyno to check everything?

[Simon-S14]

set it at 15 and then get the tuner to set to 20. cant go wrong with that

[NSNPWR]

If youve got a good timing light and nothings changed with the setup (compression, boost, cams etc etc etc) set it to 20, why mess around?...

[Mark-32]

If youve got a good timing light and nothings changed with the setup (compression, boost, cams etc etc etc) set it to 20, why mess around?...

Yeah nothings changed except running standard coil packs as my split fires got stolen.

I just set the timing with a $1000 digital snap on timing light at 20 degrees but the car has a bloody ignition miss most likely a dud coil

[TwentySix]

LOL $1000 snap on timing light ... should have its own battery pack =D

engine at operating temperate aswell yall