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Old Jan 16, 2008 | 12:25 AM
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How do you go about retarding timing? I have a 150 wet shot, and know I need to retard the timing...but thats about it. The car has a Nick Williams sd tune on it now...would that affect how much timing to pull? I also have no idea how timing is pulled (on this car) either...thanks for any help...and sorry for being an idiot.
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Old Jan 16, 2008 | 09:43 AM
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The best thing on the market to pull timming reliably will be the MSD Timming Twister, Timming Tuner, or Tunning software.
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Old Jan 16, 2008 | 10:41 AM
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You could also pull timing with the HSW Interface. It would be best to use tuning software though, because you aren't sure how much timing was added when it was tuned before.

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I would think that getting an actual tune would be more beneficial to nitrous tuning and power increases. plus I just think its safer.
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I am no expert by any means but, I believe that you would want to use a "timing tuner" so you can run advanced timing while not running the N2O and then when you are going to run the N2O the "timing tuner" retards the timing when the N2O is activated so you are running safe timing while on the bottle. This way you get the best performance the 95% of the time while not on the N2O and still are able to use the bottle safely......Just my 2-cents.......
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that works unless your gonna be a bottle fed baby like my car is. then you have all that tune in the n20 setup.
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hmmm...I've had my eye on the interface... I see on the website it says it works off of the MAF. Will it work in my car...? (with the maf bypassed,or w/e you would call it)
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