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<<Max Brake Torque >>

Back in Detroit (also in the SAE standards) MBT meant "Minimum advance for
Best Torque."  A good way to approach the subject, as George implied, is to
set the advance for some torque loss, say 1%.  Then it would be "Min adv.
for a 1% torque loss".  That would probably be safe for all engines not
octane-limited.

Gary Casey

ps:  While building EFI systems for race cars I once - very reluctantly -
agreed to put a manual adjusting pot for mixture on the dash.  The driver
said his Nissan (running about 85 inches MAP at 8500 rpm) kept running
better and better as he turned the knob, until it blew up.  We took the knob
off.  That's one way to learn from experience.  Incidentally some say
experience is the best teacher.  I say it is the worst teacher - what good
teacher would give you the test before the lesson?