Need a sanity check here. Here's the steps I followed. 94, single, elite 1500, oem pulley. Ign1a.

1. Warm up car
2. Set timing lock to always on -5 firing angle, +15 trailing split angle
3. Attach timing light to T1, top front spark plug
4. Timing mark on pulley is at 1 o'clock or so
5. Adjust trigger system tdc angle until pulley mark aligns with timing boss line. I had to move counter clockwise. Haltech does not allow negative tdc angle so I went to 336.5. To get the light to align

does this make sense????

 

Recently needed a sanity check as well doing this exact thing. Reached out to Mr Ludwig for help and this was his response

After following his instructions


The base trigger angle was set to 5 by default and required no adjustment. I would suggest following his instructions and rechecking. The annoying part is using the -5/15 settings forces you to eyeball the trigger wheel for alignment.

Its not too often we're setting base timing like this with a stock wheel and we were troubleshooting some other things at the same time. we needed an authority to confirm our findings and sure enough we were correct but wanted that 100% affirmation and this was what we wanted to see.

 

I just went through this again with Chris over my shoulder.. that's the ticket.

 

OK fixed it. Used the +10 firing angle and 30 secondary lag. Was withing 1.5 deg while measuring on the trialing plug. Thanks all and Mr Ludwig. Just bought the syltech IAT you sell. Works great and is pretty fast.

 

Just to clarify, my own quote above is wrong. Where it says T2 should be T1. I fat fingered that apparently. Guess you all figured that out though.