Last nights progress - nothing visual but mechanical progress was outstanding..
The Colonel has been runing a little rough lately - can't make its mind up whether to run on 4, 5 or 6 cylinders.
Pulled the s/plugs out found all kinds of crazy temps/detonation/build ups on the electrodes, so I chucked a new set of plugs with points and condensor at it.. tested again runnning smoothish but not brilliant, so checked timing - total mech advance (without vacuum) 50 degrees - WTF with vacuum 65 degrees total!!!!
Pulled distributor apart found missing one spring of the advance weights, (thanks to UJ I fitted an old Cortina advance spring - urgh.. FORD!! ) cleaned and greased bushes etc and chucked back in.
Final specs - initial timing 7.5 degrees, total mechnical advance (without vacuum) 20 degrees, total with vacuum 35 degrees.. FTW thank you very much!!
End result - a car that accelerates like fucking MADNESS (like I was blown away and I can feel every singfle one of those factory 130 horsies) and no more detonation, hard acceleration is now smooth as, light throttle a little miss every so often -Will replace coil with GT40 tonight and see if that fixes the light throttle.
Me = shiny glee, and caffeine makes me feel happy..