New to carb need help setting time and info on 6AL

Creetan · 07-05-2009, 04:33 AM

I bought an 89 Coupe that was converted to carb. Has an Accel 71201E dizzy which is mechanical and vacuum advance. A vac line was never hooked up to the vac advance when I got it. I have since swaped the motor that was in it for a fresh rebuilt motor. I now have to drop the dizzy in and time it.

My question is how do I set the base timing with my dizzy? Should I put a vac hose on the vac advance line? I also have an MSD 6AL box. How would I go about hooking it up? Any pros or cons to running the box with my current set up? i heard something about only being able to set base timing using the box? Thanks for any input.

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Creetan · 07-05-2009, 11:45 PM

Anyone??

67mustang302 · 07-06-2009, 12:58 AM

With or without the box it won't matter, unless the dizzy requires a box to run. Might as well run the box anyway though. And setting timing is just like any dizzy. With the vacuum advance, hook it up to a ported vacuum and it won't be active at idle, so you just set the timing where you want it.

Creetan · 07-06-2009, 06:26 PM

Thank you very much.