I'm wondering if the timing itself could affect the smog test results.

Food for thought. I'm going to go reset the advance and see how she runs.

Any BTDC people out there care to chime in?

On Wed, 23 May 2007 19:24:53 -0400, Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET> wrote:

>Apparently not "Everybody".  All three of my 1.9s are timed at 5� ATDC
>and run fine.  If I were to advance the timing at all I "Might" go to 0
>(TDC) but I wouldn't advance a 1.9 more than that.  Maybe that's just me.
>
>Mike
>'84 GL 7 pass
>'84 GL Westy
>'85 GL Westy
>
>
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>Geza Polony wrote:
>> Yes but...doesn't everybody time them a bit before TDC anyway? I thought the
>> ATDC specs were mostly for early EPA requirements. When I had mine at 5*
>> atdc it didn't have any power.
>>