hey all, just looking into recurving the distributor in the valiant, but was just wonding what i will benifit from doing this?
recurved distributor? why?
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You would get all the power the engine can deliver and has at the earliest points possible.
so do they do anything different then put lighter springs in?
An adjustable vacuum advance should be added to limit the max amount of advance. You can also weld the weights travel to a shorter distance. Ethier or will do.
Beatnik
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If you have a stock dist. send it to Don at FBO. He'll rebuild it for you really nice...just an option.
dose he recurve baised on you cam and engine set up? or just a rebuilt with lighter springs? any idea how much he charges?
Depending what distributor you have you may not have adjustable mechanical advance (stock). With a full recurve job they can build in a fixed amount of advance, say 20 deg. by welding up the slots and redrilling/grinding. Thus you will have 15 idle and 35 full or whatever you desire. If you have an MP distributor it may already be adjustable.
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1968FormulaS340
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Re-curving is simply tuning....
Just like you can fine tune a carb you can also fine tune your distributor for your combination.
As with any aspect of your restoration, you should try to include all available information to the person who will do your work. You can get a lot of information about your distributor with a decent adjustable timing light and a dwell/tachometer. Things like your initial timing, your full advance, the RPM when you reach full advance, all would be important information to include when recurving this distributor. The cam specs, torque converter stall, rearend gear ratio, carb size are other things you should be able to provide. Recurving your distributor is a relatively easy procedure when you have the car right there and running, but much harder to get right on the bench of someone miles away who can't be there to fine tune it in. If you have a good timing light and a dwell/tach meter, why not just do it yourself?? Get the spring kit, and maybe a welder to spot a drop in the advance slots and go for it. There are a lot of articles regarding how to do this, read up on it and do it yourself, you'll be glad you did!! Good luck with your project, Geof
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