Now, I've put alot of work into this thread, and have made it a sticky on another car site I mod. It has also been seen on numerous other forums I frequent. It started when a fellow member asked about timing his V-tec to get more power, yo. Needless to say, the young man was able to extract the most amount of timing as possible. I hope it helps many people here, too.



You need to make sure you set your timing. This is very critical in racing because if your timing is off then it could lead to a sequence of failure events and fatal errors with the internals of your crank shaft.
There are two different ways to monitor your timing and a muiltitude of ways to set your timimg. You can either set it digitally or analogally and it really just depends on what car you have and the format of which the timing is displayed.
My favorite is digital because it gives you an exact number as opposed to the analog's "arms" that force you to extrapolate an answer. I think, being that you are a beginner, you should get a race car that has the digital setup. You will get more initial enjoyment from that and then you can work your way into the more complicated analog systems.
Setting timing can be a chore. You can't assume the timing or you find yourself getting to the race track late and even worse higher reaction times at the tree. For the digital setup, there are a series of buttons you have to press on the car's radio in order to accurately set the timing for optimal efficiency. If you need help the first time, you can swing by a performance shop and they can show you and give you pointers.
As you can see, the timing on this vehicle is in the red and ABSOLUTELY needs to be checked.

Racing this car would not be a wise decision and could cause further damage to the knock sensor.
You can see that this car's timing is set perfectly because of the green color.

Remember, green means go and exactly what this car is ready to do.
The fallback to a digital system is that in order to get the most out of your car you have to buy a new laptop with bluetooth technology. This interface will connect with the onboard computer of your car and communicate back and forth. The car can tell the laptop if it's not been running good and whether or not you are using enough octane booster in the gas.
Most of the "old school" racers use the analog timing. There is no green or red lighting so it makes it harder to read but they usually know what they are doing and are good at it. This is an example of analog timing out of a Saab race car:

Well, I hope this information helps out. If you need some more info I will do my best to help. These other guys are just bench racing jokers that are trying to say some stupid bull****. Like the flux capacitor guy, you don't have to adjust the flux capacitor, the OEM ECU adjusts it automatically. ****in idiot.

 

ok.. so what your telling me.. is that if my stereo is RED... my timing is off? and if its green timing is good? ? pardon me being rude.. but WTF kinda bullsh!t is that? ? ? ? and what tree did you fall out of?

 

someone needs a lesson in sarcasm...

the first paragraph where i said i was helping some kid get more "power out of his vtec, yo" shoulda given that away...
congrats for being the first person on the internet who thought that was a serious post!

 

then quit waisting our time and bandwidth on your crap...

 

Do you find jokes offensive or something?

 

my crap?
shove it up your ***. i dont see you as a contributor to this site, so as long as i post within the rules and regulations of the board, i can post whatever i want. and if you stick around, you just might see im actually worth something, and probably have moew knowledge on general mechanics and diagnostics than you, or most people on these boards.

and meanwhile, get that stick outta your ***. you really should let it air out once in a while...

 

LOL..... appreciate the humor.....