euro cam timing

[Ian Lomax <sfalfisto@domain.elided>]

Joe brings up my next question... which is what's the
best setting for the Euro cams?  I've heard 102
degrees on both cams is a good all around setting for
the alfa 4 cyl.  So how do I get there?  Does anyone
know what the timing is when the Euro cams are lined
up with the stock timing marks?  I've heard the same
suggestion that Joe mentions, but I thought that was
for the stock US cams.  Are they all marked the same?

Thanks again, and thanks for all the replies to my
spark plug question.  All answers were that I should
be ok, but to check by hand rotating the engine a few
times first.

Cheers,
Ian Lomax
71 Spider - running better and better!
--- Joe Martin Cantrell <agiyo@domain.elided> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 09:18:30 -0700
> To: sfalfisto@domain.elided
> From: Joe Martin Cantrell <agiyo@domain.elided>
> Subject: cams
> 
> I've got a slight miss at idle in my spider which is
> currently running old Lodge plugs, and a perfectly
> good set of Denso plugs (my favorites) sitting in a
> drawer. I'm hesitant to use them with Euro cams due
> to the increased lift of these cams vs. stock. I had
> no interference issues with them using 1750 cams.
> Does anybody know - definitively - if you can use a
> standard single-electrode plug with Euro cams in a
> 2L
> engine?
> 
> Ian,
> There are no interference problems with Euro cams. 
> You might well have set 
> them up with a little too much overlap, though.  The
> books say set the 
> intake with 4 or 5 holes advance, the exhaust with
> one hole retard; I find 
> that gives me a bit of spitting back on my
> Euro-cammed motor.
> 
> If this is the case, retarding the intake cam one
> hole may cure it all.
> 
> Cheers,
> Joe
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