B16a turbo obd0 setup, and when i give it gas, even a little it retards the timing... about 1.5 inches... sorry i can't be more precise, but the more gas i give it the more it retards. At idle it is just find though. Any ideas why it is doing this?

 

im not quite sure what u r saying
the cam timing? base timing? what?
what is moving 1.5 inches..u need to articulate in order for us to help you

 

do you have the timing plug jumped? because if you dont, then your ecu is controlling that.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Suck my DX &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">im not quite sure what u r saying
the cam timing? base timing? what?
what is moving 1.5 inches..u need to articulate in order for us to help you</TD></TR></TABLE>

yeah, i suppose i should give more details when asking a question like that, when i use a timing light on the underdrive pully, the middle tick doesn't line up at all when i rev the car, it is fine at idle, but like i said as soon as i give it gas it moves up to 1.5 inches away... not sure in degrees, maybe 20 degrees... is that normal? any ideas?

 

i used to be throwing a knock sensor code... not anymore, but could that have somehting to do with it?

 

if your car is knocking, then it will go into limp mode. which will most likely retard your timing a lot so you dont blow anything up.

 

It's advancing, not retarding the ignition timing.

It's supposed to do that!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by sanimalp &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">if your car is knocking, then it will go into limp mode.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Not really though.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 7PSI CRX &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">It's advancing, not retarding the ignition timing.

It's supposed to do that!</TD></TR></TABLE>

yup, I looked at the timing numbers in Crome and above 1000 RPMs between 14-26 in/hg timing gets advanced from 16*BTDC to 21.75*BTDC, and at 2000 RPM's it is at 36* BTDC.

So yah that's normal. If it *was* retarding timing at idle and while reving it, you would have a really crappy idle/rev. But I'm sure that's not what's happening.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by BlueShadow &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

yup, I looked at the timing numbers in Crome and above 1000 RPMs between 14-26 in/hg timing gets advanced from 16*BTDC to 21.75*BTDC, and at 2000 RPM's it is at 36* BTDC.

So yah that's normal. If it *was* retarding timing at idle and while reving it, you would have a really crappy idle/rev. But I'm sure that's not what's happening.</TD></TR></TABLE>

so it's nothing to worry about... as long as it is good at idle?

 

yes