<VV> Distributor initial settings on a 140

[Steven]

Thanks for the guidance.  With a couple of bright lights, a handheld mirror, 
and reading glasses I was able to read the distributor DELCO REMY and what 
looked like IHO388 or perhaps 338 or 380.  Not easy with the dist. 
installed!  After looking it up in the shop manuals I believe it realistic 
to believe it's 1110330.  That would make sense since the engine has 140 
heads, and 4 carbs, etc., even though the block is RD.

So if it's a 330, then the initial timing should be more like 18 degrees 
rather than 4 degrees?

- Steve Brown

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Davis" <jld at wk.net>
To: <steven at sashimi.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> Distributor initial settings on a 140


> The number is on the aluminum housing next to the vacuum advance.  It will 
> take a mirror and strong light to see it if the distributor is installed. 
> The number is something like: 1110330 which is a for a 140  with manual 
> transmission ( an RM block).  If it is a whole RD engine then it would 
> have a 1110310 distributor.  Pertronics doesn't; matter it is the cam, 
> springs and weights that make the distributor unique.
> Jim Davis
>
> At 09:39 PM 1/9/2008, you wrote:
>>OK, I had looked at the dist. earlier and I didn't see a number.  Where
>>exactly is it stamped?  BTW, it's got a Pertroics in it that LC installed.
>>He was very accomodating and sent me copies of the old service invoices,
>>for which I'm very grateful, but I wasn't able to determine this info from
>>those records.
>>
>>- Steve
>>
>>Original Message:
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>>From: Bryan Blackwell bryan at skiblack.com
>>Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 22:04:42 -0500
>>To: virtualvairs at corvair.org, steven at sashimi.org
>>Subject: Re: <VV> Distributor initial settings on a 140
>>
>>
>>The distributor has its own code number you can look up in the Tech
>>Guide.
>>
>>Bryan Blackwell bryan at skiblack.com
>>http://autoxer.skiblack.com/
>>    Corvairs: '61 Lakewood, '64 Greenbrier, '65 Corsa, '66 Corsa
>>    '69 Road Runner, '97 Ford F-150, '99 Neon R/T
>>"Why do something if you're not going to obsess about it?"
>>
>>
>>On Jan 9, 2008, at 9:49 PM, Steven wrote:
>>
>> > Frankly, I don't know what distributor is installed.  The car is a
>> > '69 set up as 140 PG and body emblemed as such, but the block is
>> > RD.  The Air cleaner is for a 140 SMOG engine but the A.I.R. system
>> > was removed at some time.   Engine was rebuilt at the Vair shop in
>> > 2004 with new pistons, rebuilt heads and so on for the previous
>> > owner.  Timing was at 8 degrees BTC when I first got it home in
>> > November, but I set it back to 4 degrees as worked through what
>> > turned out to be a bad modulator valve causing smoke & knock.
>>
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