[T3] great weekend drive

[Bryon Garvin]

Ok.  I'll just keep an eye on it.  I Google Mapped my route and came up with
about 5 miles less than what my odometer said so the odometer is fairly
close I guess.  More info later after I

Dave, the hand-near-the-tailpipe test......when do you do that, after it's
just warmed up?  There's no way I could do it after a decent drive.  Does
this mean I'm failing that "test" ?  I probably had my hand a few inches
away.

 - Bryon, '71 Fastback



On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:

> On 6 Sep 2011 at 20:04, Bryon Garvin wrote:
>
> > Also, dwell is within spec for used points, but it's 56.  2 pts shy of
> the
> > upper limit.  Idle is fine.  Timing is fine.  So, does the dwell value
> mean
> > anything?  Should I readjust to get it more near the middle of the
> > acceptable range instead of at one end?
>
> As long as the dwell is within spec, it has no effect on mileage. If
> it gets too far out of spec the engine will start missing and that
> will, of course, knock your gas mileage and performance down. My
> guess at this point is that there was some sort of error in the
> measurement and a longer test will prove it overly optomistic.
>
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