Re[2]: Franco gear

[kirby.a.smith@lmco.com]

On Thu, 13 Nov 1997 kirby.a.smith@lmco.com wrote:

> It was my understanding that the distributor hall effect sensor is critical 
> onlyfor engine starting, after that the timing is taken from the crankshaft 
> and adjusted electronically.  Is this for only certain Audi models?  If 
> this is true then it would seem that adjusting the distributor at idle would >
> be sufficient.

On 11/13/97 3:18 PM  "Graydon D. Stuckey" <graydon@apollo.gmi.edu> 
wrote:

  I think that you are correct, however, the Franco gear advances the cam 
  (and therefore the distributor) 7 deg at idle/startup, which I think is 
  outside the window of acceptability for a startup.

Sorry, I/m still unclear from your response why rotating the distributor 
to look like it is aligned with the crank at idle/startup won't work.  Do 
the high voltage terminals become too misaligned for the rest of the rpm 
band?  Perhaps an inseries electronic time delay could be used, depending 
on the nature of the output from the hall-effect sensor.

kirby