Easy as 1 2 3, Got it yesterday, pushed all projects aside! Options

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Got the 123Ignition yesterday, I pushed all of my projects back!
"Sorry granny I'll get to those bearings on your heart/lung machine soon, I promise."
Blocked out 3 hours for the removal and install.
Added about an hour to charge the battery.
Installed as expected, there is a spacer that is necessary for type 4, just slides over the dizzy shaft.
I decided to route the wires and vacuum away from the fan so access to the vacuum nipple was easier, since the vacuum can is gone there's a lot more space.
Followed the instructions but made the mistake of using the TDC 0* instead of the 27* as the basic timing point. I just walked the dizzy CCW until she started!
Didn't do anything other than matched my timing with my idle, I let her run till she settled down.
Just around the block once, ha ha the trailer hitching is GONE!
Responsive throttle, man!
Setting up a tuning session, nice 150 mile run up the California coast with the AFR meter.
Mike

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about 3 gallon of techron 91 left in the tank, took it out for a run down the 5 fwy with the wife.
72*F humidity 70% partly cloudy 24 mile run, toward the end a slight up hill, oil temps at 185*F I could hear pinging at full throttle, Hyde just poking his head out.

At this point I think I am sold on the plugged retard vacuum line, I have a pretty steady idle at 1050 rpm, headlights have an effect but not as pronounced as using the vacuum retard.

This is a '74 D-Jet so the throttle body has the single vacuum nipple, so no vacuum advance.

I am having the more pronounced "hot start" issue, my solution, at startup WOT, as she fires I reduce the peddle input but not so much to stall the engine, idle will be way to low for the first 30 seconds, so I just feather the throttle till the idle stablizes.


Also this engine has the blue coil.