New Distributor... when do I let off the gas?
Well since I cant ride the bike today
back to working on the Cougie!!!
I just put a new Mallory Unilite Distributor 4755101 on the 289 replacing the single point setup that was on there before. It took all of 15 minutes to yank the old one, put the new one in, re-attach wires, and shoot the timing. Did have all the wires shifted one spot to the right so she didnt fire on the first try, once I re-attached the wires in the correct order fired immediately.
Took it out for some test spins on the road and the results are amazing. The 289 had been rebuilt last year BP and Balanced, new cam, and rebuilt hi-po heads and I have never been able to get it past 4800 RPM. It would approach 4700 and start to stumble and then lay flat at 4800. This was upsetting because at 4400-4600 it seemed like it was just kicking in.
I ran it up to 5500 on these last test runs and wow. She is kicking... I didnt want to try to run it any more than that but she is still pulling and I have plenty of throttle left. Planning on taking it to the track this afternoon to run some ET's.
Any thoughts where I should set my rev-limit?
Well since I cant ride the bike today
I just put a new Mallory Unilite Distributor 4755101 on the 289 replacing the single point setup that was on there before. It took all of 15 minutes to yank the old one, put the new one in, re-attach wires, and shoot the timing. Did have all the wires shifted one spot to the right so she didnt fire on the first try, once I re-attached the wires in the correct order fired immediately.
Took it out for some test spins on the road and the results are amazing. The 289 had been rebuilt last year BP and Balanced, new cam, and rebuilt hi-po heads and I have never been able to get it past 4800 RPM. It would approach 4700 and start to stumble and then lay flat at 4800. This was upsetting because at 4400-4600 it seemed like it was just kicking in.
I ran it up to 5500 on these last test runs and wow. She is kicking... I didnt want to try to run it any more than that but she is still pulling and I have plenty of throttle left. Planning on taking it to the track this afternoon to run some ET's.
Any thoughts where I should set my rev-limit?