Originally Posted by ComputerJLT

actually i've had to pull a SHITLOAD of timing from this motor.
Somethign is not right with my setup but it still makes power; something is out of sync in the distro because i've had to scoot my timing columss over about 4 for whatever reason; i'm thinking the b16 tb may be ------- me up not sure. After scooting the colums over i've had to pull maybe and aditional 4-8 degrees of timing out of the maps to keep away detonation. It used to be real bad like ic ould hear it and the J&S was going nuts pulling 20 degrees of timing from at least one of the cylinders but it was still detonating. Also my distro is clocked almost all the way retarded.

Something is definately not right; thats why i've only got the nerve to go up to 5psi. and i've only boosted to that maybe 5 times since i put this together....

I've either got some wierd electrical s hit going on in my distributor; that J&S is ------- things up or i've somehow developed a shitload of carbon buildup in that engine after 5k mostly highway miles on a semi-tuned map (took another guys z6 map he had tuned for 450's and lower compression) afr's were not bad and as soon as i pulled extra timing it ran great

I'm going to bypass the safeguard and borrow a friends obd1 distributor in the next week or so and see if thats my problem. That is currently on my to do list and i've been looking into it and such... my fear is that buildup in the cylinders is causing this. Because with my low compression i shouldnt be PULLING timing i should be adding the crap out of it :-/