Timing belt ?

[Huw Powell]

> I bit of theory here . .is the distributor driven off the camshaft also? If
> yes, how are you getting spark to any cylinder?

Yes it is, although with the 5kt cars, once they start, spark is timed 
by crank position.

I myself was trying to figure out a way pehaps one cylinder could keep 
kicking along... but it just won't work without valves.

OK, *maybe*, one cylinder is about at TDC, that one would get a spark 
each time around, and both valves are closed.  I could see *maybe* an 
intake charge being drawn in, valve sucked open by cylinder vacuum. 
Then compression, and spark (per flywheel position), and power - but 
where do the exhaust gases go?

And of course, the subject car was a 4kq, which gets its spark fire 
signal from the hall sender on the dizzy...

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Huw Powell

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