Coil on plug and Timing light.

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Coil on plug and Timing light.

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I really need to get my timing set spot on. It's close but it's deffo not bang on. Tried with the timing light but the light seemed to be all over the place. Spoke to Tom at fensports and he says to turn the clip round? we had a normal HT lead coming out of the coil then to the plug, timing light was taking a pulse from that but as said lights was insane. Anybody have a sure fire way of doing this? The same timing light was used to set timing on another mr2 recently with no issues.
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Sounds like you're not in static / locked timing mode. For the stock ECU putting it into diag mode does this, for aftermarket I assume this is something you can switch in software? Aftermarket ECU stuff is outside my limited area of knowledge.
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i actually did have it locked mate. just the timing light was going mental.
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Fensport will get you in, tell you that there's 100 things wrong, rack up a big bill then adjust it forwards, then backwards.
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androo007 wrote:Fensport will get you in, tell you that there's 100 things wrong, rack up a big bill then adjust it forwards, then backwards.


Car's booked in with Russ Paton on the 8th of July mate. Fixed price including adjusting the timing and trigger offset 8)
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