28 here and i can pick 1&2. rolled a '67 cutlass in high school. talk about e-z to wrench!

 

I'm only 31, so I guess I'm in the middle of most of you guys.

I had to pick "I have never touched either one" because although I've seen a timing light, and in theory know how to use one, I've never had the need to.

And I'm from the cap & rotor era. I fortunately missed out on adjusting points. I don't know if I could if I had to, as I've never even seen them in use to know where to start.

But I definitely think that the job of a backyard mechanic was much easier when all this stuff was mechanical. Carbs were easy to rebuild and clean out, you didn't have to half pull out your motor just to change a belt, and you didn't have 30 things to take off before you could replace a valve cover gasket!!

 

Cap and rotor, you still need a timing lite to adjust.

 

Not really. To be very precise yes, but I could always get within 2 or 3 degrees and then I could adjust the fuel accordingly so essentially I could get it on the money

 

Precise is what i am looking for when I have a lot of money$ tied up in my nova motor.

 

30 later this month, but I've never owned a timing light I'd just go steal the nice one I gave my dad for his birthday when I was growing up. my first car was a 65' VW baja bug with a 1641 single port engine a 009 distributor, no friggin heater and flow thru ventilation. When I wrecked it, turned too fast went off road hit tree virtically, my father took the opportunity to buy some body tools and put me to work. I fixed the roofline and the rest of it, took months, and learned how to put in a windshield.

 

I'm 41 yrs old. I still have a timing light that clips between the plug and wire (non-inductive). I don't use it any more. I use an inductive one now. As a matter of fact, I just adjusted the timing on my Mustang a couple of hours ago. Gas is down, so I sent back to 93 octane and 14* of timing. Now if I could get it to hook

Yes dwell is the time that the points are closed and charging the coil. The longer the dwell, the hotter the spark. This is why the Dynomod electronic ignition modules are nice, they have a longer dwell time than stock for a hotter spark.

33 1/3,45 & 78 are record player RPMs. Yea I still have a nice sounding JVC turntable. As a matter of fact, my rack system is all JVC (except the 11 band EQ from radio shack) that I bought in 1990. Still puts out a clear 140watts per channel and a good condition LP sounds as good as a CD if not better in my opinion.

I even have an old AM/FM 8-track car stereo out in the garage that works great. I have a case of tapes too. Meatloaf, Nazareth, and others. Nothing like jamming to a tune and having it fade away to change track in the middle of a song I still have a VCR too.

 

14* was the sweet spot we found in my buddy's 50, I hope you're not talking about a fox body... rear f---ing quad shocks were like a bandaid on a gaping wound! Good luck finding traction without tubbing.

 

Yep, 88 FOX. The main reason is that the tires are 11 years old and probably a bit hard. It has 265/50 15's now. When the funds are available, it will be getting 275/50r15 BFG drag radials. It has aftermarket rear control arms and no quad shocks anymore. (Wouldn't clear the 8" Welds with 5.5" of backspacing.)
Here is a pic before I installed my Magnaflow cat-back. Magnaflow does make more power than my Flowmasters did.

 

im only 24 but, when building and owning a 66 Mustang you get used to both 1&2