mjr46

also make sure the car is not running hot at all, things that cause pinging/detonation...= overadvance timing, carbon build up on chambers and pistons,, wrong heat range plug can lead to issues also, to lean a mixture(vaccum leaks can cause issue) and if car has egr still, malfuctioning egr can cause issues and bad gas or low octane rating can irritate the prob.

GIXER7502006

the dizzy has a vacumm advance Ive had it with vaccum and plugged so there is no vaccum going to it, it seemd to run a little better when i disconected it

the motor craft plugs that r in it i pretty sure they r not a platumin plug but idk 4 sure
maybe with the part # someone can tell me 4 sure

I will get a video tonight of it running to try and show y'all what it is doing

GIXER7502006

when the old engine was acting up it was over heating ie blown head gasket
so it has a 3 core rad. new water pump and i know i should hav one but it has no thermostat in it, i hav a factory guage and when it over heated on the old motor it showed corectly on the guage, now it runs at the first line to the N depending on how hot it is out I live in Florida and with the a/c on it runs at no higher than O never leaving the O
no egr it has a spacer plate, many tanks of gas threw this motor
and the plugs I got from the ford store and the guy said with my setup these would be the best plugs, him knowing I hav a 1985 ignition and a 200 explorer motor with GT40P heads
Im going to look for a vaccum leak again tonight and try n get a video too

thanks for all yur time with me mjr46

mjr46

THE PROB, i'VE FOUND WITH THE FACTORY DURASPARK distributor = the mechanical advance will be upwards of 30+ degrees, you can verify that with a timing light, and rev it up to 3500 and point the light at the balancer and you'll see, when i PLUG in the vaccum advance I've had close to 50 degrees, and I've done plenty of conversions using that distributor and ignition box, unless you have a way to curve the internal weights with heavier springs is run without the vac advance, may be a tad lazy down low, just bump initial up more and make sure total doesn't exceed 32-36 ish, this is where I found they run the best without pinging