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Holy Smoking' 914!, Help! |
Dck356 |
Jun 23 2017, 08:38 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 9-April 12 From: Davidson, NC Member No.: 14,355 Region Association: South East States |
Good evening gents. I've been lurking in the background while working on my 74 2.0L. Purchased the car almost a year ago from a member here who had it sitting as a project for about 12 years. So far I've done the following:
- removed gas tank and had it cleaned/sealed - replaced all fuel lines with the SS kit from Tangerine - replaced fuel pump and fuel filter - pulled distributor; had a bad pertronix unit - added points, condenser, rotor, cap, plug wires - popped the distributor back in and set static timing So this afternoon, after 12 years of not running, it fired right up. Exciting right? Not so much... the exhaust began producing a ridiculous amount of blue/white smoke - lucky the fire department didn't show. Seriously hoping that this is a timing problem and not a worn out engine. Tomorrow I'll check the dwell, put the timing light on it at 27 degrees... and say a little prayer to the Porsche gods. Any thoughts or words of advice? Thanks in advance!! |
Spoke |
Jun 24 2017, 01:14 PM
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Jerry Group: Members Posts: 6,978 Joined: 29-October 04 From: Allentown, PA Member No.: 3,031 Region Association: None |
So you have DJET FI? If so, a vacuum leak will look like the throttle is opened. AAR won't give you 3k RPM though.
When you set timing to 27 degrees, you say the idle jumped to 3k. What was it before? |
Dck356 |
Jun 24 2017, 01:22 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 9-April 12 From: Davidson, NC Member No.: 14,355 Region Association: South East States |
So you have DJET FI? If so, a vacuum leak will look like the throttle is opened. AAR won't give you 3k RPM though. When you set timing to 27 degrees, you say the idle jumped to 3k. What was it before? Yes, DJET. When I was getting the dwell to 47 the rpms were right around 900. Then when setting the timing to 27 degrees I had to turn the distributor to hit the mark - as the rpms increased I couldn't adjust the idle back down. I'm using a timing light with the dial on the back set to 27 degrees and looking for TDC. Maybe i'm not timing it correctly? |
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