Anybody have an advance timing light??

[damesta]

I'm thinking about picking one up with the advance and digital display instead of just the normal inductive Ive been using forever. I had some questions though, how do you use the advance? Is this light going to tell me exactley what degree my timing is at without relying on the timing marks? I basically just don't understand how these work at all. Searched and couldn't find any really good info that I understood. Anybody have a basic write up or anything?

[damesta]

BTW, anybody seen these before?

http://www.3800performance.com...S-IST

Is there anything like that that would work on our cars. I would really like to be able to monitor and have an accurate ignition timing display. Any ideas, I think you can do this with the emanage and blitz r-vit, is there any way to do it cheaper?

[Dattebayo]

This would be a great question to ask in the Nissan Online Mechanicforum here on NICO. Im sure everyone could benefit from that!

[damesta]

Will do.

[Zero260]

I got an advance timing light(w/ digital read-out). it's got 2 buttons on it that'll advance or retard timing, than the light blinks later(earlier if you're advancing) so you can match up the mark and get an accuarate setting, it's kinda nice, I used it to advance timing on an N/A Rotary.

[damesta]

After looking everywhere for timing monitors and such I finally stumbled accross this:

http://www.plmsdevelopments.com/consult_if.shtml

Has everyone just missed this or am I missing somthing? It sounds almost too good to be true but a few freshalloy guys have some good expirience. You can pick this up complete for 107.00 USD shipped, then go grab an old 300-500mhz laptop off of ebay for 50.00 and you have a replica of the $3-4 thousand dollar nissan consult diagnostic system. It hasn't been tested with s13 CA's yet but it is fully compatible with s13 SR's so I'm not too worried, from what I understand nissan uses the same software on both of them and I would ofcourse be wiring it directly to my ecu and bypassing the consult port(mine isn't functional anyway). Heres what it will monitor and display:

* RPM * Air Flow * Air Flow Right Hand * Water Temperature (C or F) * O2 Sensor * O2 Sensor Right Hand * Speed (KPH or MPH) with tyre size correction * Battery Voltage * Throttle Position Sensor * Fuel Temperature (C or F) * Intake Air Temperature (C or F) * Exhaust Gas Temperature * Injector Time * Ignition Timing * AAC Valve * Air Fuel Base * Air Fuel Base Right Hand * Air Fuel Base Self Learn * Air Fuel Base Self Learn Right Hand * Injector Time Right Hand * Duty Cycle * Duty Cycle RH * O2 Sensor B1 * O2 Sensor B2

So what do you guys think, worth a try? I already emailed them to check their stock.

[MikeDombeck]

if its the same software, than i guess it would work... but there is a link at the bottom that says e-mail to pete..... he would be the one to ask. seeing as he is selling it.

[damesta]

Allright, just realized somthing after looking through the fsm, CA's don't support the consult diagnostics at all. I knew it was too good to be true, lol. I was getting confused because everyone I talked to about a timing display told me I had to tap into the consult port and that I could use any electronic monitors that were made for the s13 sr to do it, I guess they didn't know that either. That sucks though, that means its gonna be way harder to set up any kind of monitoring system. Guess I'm gonna keep looking.

[Dattebayo]

Our stock computer is only an 8-bit system, so what you get off the led-readout is pretty much all you can get. Standalones and some piggybacks can help you do this though.

[damesta]

Which piggybacks would be able to do this on the CA?

[top_secret]

doesn't the apexi multichecker exist for just such a purpose?

[damesta]

I think it does after looking into it a little bit, I thought it was just another consult plug thing so I hadn't even checked it out. It looks good though, anyone have any expirience using one on a ca?