Advancing Ignition Timing., Can anybody tell me the right way? Options

[Silver94CelicaOw...]

Several times I've heard on these boards that advancing the timing a few degrees can be beneficial to both your fuel consumption and throttle response. Can anybody tell me the right way to advance your timing?

Ive heard people say to use a timing light and to adjust it on the distributor, but I need some explanations of what a timing light is/does and the best method to adjust timing. Thanks in advance guys.

[bufferdan]

You can actually gain pretty decent performance from doing this. But you will start causing damage to your engine sooner. You will probably get knock or pinging from advancing your timming because your fuel will lean out. I wouldnt mess with it. I guess if you were going to the track and ran some high octane gas you could advance it a few degree's. I played around with this some on my corolla.. There were a noticable difference in performance when i advanced it alot. Then i retarded it and boy was it doggish.

This post has been edited by bufferdan: Aug 6, 2004 - 2:59 PM