Ignition advice

[sid131]

on a trailer & in boxes would be hard but when she is together you are on

[theredx19]

Look forward to that race then.... but there will no spraying of champagne over the cars as we need to keep the rust away 

[sid131]

Ok Dave champers for the bheil only

[theredx19]

Sounds good to me that

[Thotos]

Even points are good but it is setting them that people have trouble with

There's no magic to setting up points and a points system can work well. But points will need regular adjustment to work at their best. They are also limited to the amount of current they can 'sink' therefore limited to the strength of the spark they will produce and as they get pitted the situation gets worse. They are also limited to how fast you can open and close so about 8000 RPM on a four cylinder engine is their limit. Once you have more than 4 cylinders things get worse and manufacturers had to use twin point setups to get them to work reliably at higher RPMs.   But a well set up points system will produce sufficient spark to run a twin cam just as well as the 131 Sport electronic system but the points will need to be replaced and adjusted many times before the 131 Sport's magnetic pickup will need to be replaced.  

[theredx19]

Fitting points is part of a cars maintenance and even when they do give trouble you can generally engineer them to get going again but with the pickup or module in Electronic you best hope you have good reception  but I do have an older Fiat that had a factory upgrade to electronic to let it rev to 10500rpm as the points were limited to 8500 rpm but how often would you drive to these limits.... but as they say keep it simple and less can go wrong 

[eugene]

I see dave,that you are thinking along the LADA lines"keep it simple and less can go wrong" .I agree .Eugene

[theredx19]

Eugene dont be agreeing with me or they might all think we are friends  but if they had put points on the 999cc uno they would have given no trouble at all....

[sid131]

"friends will be friends"

[theredx19]

Ah good one Sid but it just feels wrong with Eugene agreeing with me or me agreeing with him 

[Tas131]

Get the 131 down here and we give it a seeing to but 400cc less and only 3bhp less  just remember it is the original of the sports species....

You can plow a paddock with the torque of a 2 litre but a 1.6 wouldn't pull a sailor off your sister!

[sid131]

thats great cant wait for the red fellas reply 

[theredx19]

thats great cant wait for the red fellas reply 

Well at least Tas has a sense of humour and as for the sailor poor bastard wouldnt wish that on my worse enemy but all I know is the 1600 is a fast little bastard that still gives civics a seeing to  but I wont let off the right pedal 

[sid131]

civics?? they are girlie cars

[theredx19]

Your right Sid they are for girls not like yorkie bars