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by 51Plymouth
Fri Jun 26, 2015 4:00 am
Forum: General Motors
Topic: Spark Advance Initial GM TPI
Replies: 6
Views: 15373

B I N G O You nailed it. I was using an emulator and did not disable check-sum. It kept showing timing offset beyond 50 degrees and did go to the limp home mode. The car (32 Ford) was a 1991 Camaro transplant and no check engine light was wired. I sure learned a lesson on this one. Problem was ident...
by 51Plymouth
Wed Jun 24, 2015 8:09 am
Forum: General Motors
Topic: Spark Advance Initial GM TPI
Replies: 6
Views: 15373

PROBLEM SOLVED - I think.... I was using an emulator from Moates and Turner Pro RT to do some tuning. The ECU is a gm p/n 1227730 (p/n replacement 16198262) that has a UV EPROM in the MEMCAL. I picked up a chip, download stock tune to emulator, made some changes everything worked fine (so I thought)...
by 51Plymouth
Mon Jun 22, 2015 11:08 am
Forum: General Motors
Topic: Spark Advance Initial GM TPI
Replies: 6
Views: 15373

What bugs me is when I use TunerPro RT the baseline distributor setting pops up at 50 degrees. I re-set it to 10 degrees but on the "dashboard" of the RT tuning program is shows up as 50 degrees. I suspect that the baseline timing (50 degrees) virtually exceeds the max timing of 50 degrees...
by 51Plymouth
Mon Jun 22, 2015 10:05 am
Forum: General Motors
Topic: Spark Advance Initial GM TPI
Replies: 6
Views: 15373

I bugged the wire from the ECU to the distributor and it's plugged in and connected. When I disconnected it to "set the timing" and re-connected after static timing was set. The leading edge of the spark is exactly aligned with the reluctor signal from the distributor. I have a spare ECU a...
by 51Plymouth
Mon Jun 22, 2015 7:17 am
Forum: General Motors
Topic: Spark Advance Initial GM TPI
Replies: 6
Views: 15373

Spark Advance Initial GM TPI

I'm working on a 1991 Camaro transplant in a '32 Ford. The Spark Advance Initial shows 50 degrees timing in the data logging dashboard. The Spark Advance Initial (distributor initial) is set to 10 degrees advance in the parameter table and the distributor is physical set to 10 degrees. Problem is ti...