<VV> ignition knocking on 66 Corsa Turbo

[FrankCB at aol.com]

Hi Guus,
If the SafeGuard is indicating electronic retard so much at higher loads,  
it's an indication that your distributor is NOT providing enough (or even 
ANY)  retard by itself and the SafeGuard has to compensate.  This is assuming 
you  haven't already made significant modifications to the engine and 
controls such  that the stock distributor pressure retard cannot, by itself, 
handle the  changes.  
So check that pressure retard and let us know if it's working.
Regards,
Frank Burkhard
P.S.  Is it tulip time in the Netherlands, yet?<GGG>
 
 
In a message dated 3/28/2012 3:22:29 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
guusdehaan at me.com writes:

I have a Safe Guard system from Ray Sedman on my engine. It has a display  
showing the amount of compensation and while okay under normal driving, it  
does need to compensate when I do a quick acceleration. While driving at  
higher speeds or uphill it's on pretty much all the time. I'll keep it on the  
engine but feel it shouldn't be working that often. That's why I'm looking  
into the distributor  itself.