29-06-2022, 12:09 PM
(This post was last modified: 29-06-2022, 12:32 PM by Hedd_Jones.)
its also worth noting that a 1932 car would have been fitted with a distributor without auto advance. So the welded up bosch would have been a direct replacement.
I had never driven a car with the original manual advance set up untill I put the chummy on the road. Contrary to what my father told me (that they were a pain in the arse) I found it a revelation. Easy to use. No flat spots.
I never wired the car up, so always started it on the handle. ignition timing was sey by ear/feel. I started it fully retarded in the availible adjustment by the lever, then as soon as running the lever went to the fully advanced position like the manual said to do. And thats where it stayed.
It ran nice with no flat spots at all. Fiddling with the lever showed it didnt go as well fully retarded (nonsurprise there), and on some fuels it could be retarded a smidge at full chat which didnt seem to effect progress but tue rear main rumbled a little less.
In comparison to the auto equiped cars which always seem to have a very small hesitation coming off idle, which I assume is probably the bob weights opening up.
What I am probably saying that the practice of fitting auto dizzys to cars that were manually controled as built is a fix for a problem that never existed.
I liked it so much that I'm in the process of puting a fixed dizzy on my current chummy. The stop on the job is the inner stator tube is stuck!
I had never driven a car with the original manual advance set up untill I put the chummy on the road. Contrary to what my father told me (that they were a pain in the arse) I found it a revelation. Easy to use. No flat spots.
I never wired the car up, so always started it on the handle. ignition timing was sey by ear/feel. I started it fully retarded in the availible adjustment by the lever, then as soon as running the lever went to the fully advanced position like the manual said to do. And thats where it stayed.
It ran nice with no flat spots at all. Fiddling with the lever showed it didnt go as well fully retarded (nonsurprise there), and on some fuels it could be retarded a smidge at full chat which didnt seem to effect progress but tue rear main rumbled a little less.
In comparison to the auto equiped cars which always seem to have a very small hesitation coming off idle, which I assume is probably the bob weights opening up.
What I am probably saying that the practice of fitting auto dizzys to cars that were manually controled as built is a fix for a problem that never existed.
I liked it so much that I'm in the process of puting a fixed dizzy on my current chummy. The stop on the job is the inner stator tube is stuck!