I recently went to Pep Boys and bought a timing gun.

My question is, when the gun is set to 16 degrees advanced, I see the white mark line up with the notch, but when I clear out the 16 degrees from the gun (0 degrees) I see the red mark line up. Is this the way everything should be on a stock B16A2? I'm just making sure everything is golden before I go to dyno.

Here's the video, half way through I cleared the timing to 0 (on the gun) and you'll see the white mark jump to red. You need Quicktime, also make the video double size (it will help to see).

http://198.38.12.245/~fred/civic_time.MOV ~ 2.2 MB

Let me know what you think, thanks.

 

Looks like it is right on. Thats how it should be.

 

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thanks, anyone else

 

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yep..

when you have the gun at 16 degrees its getting the timing off the spark plug, same as when you have it set to 0 its getting signal from the plug that this is 0 so the light is gonna flash at whatever the gun is set at..