Finally put the homemade exhaust system on the Effie, 2.5 ", X cross-over, straight through 2 mm. plate muffler filled with stainless steelwool, sounds awesome and a good performance improvement.But more important I think I solved my pinging problems by installing water injection into the carb., I already had a kit installed into the vacuum line to the carb for adding flash ***** an additive to stop the valve seats from burning since I run 98 octane unleaded, needed for 10.5:1 compression ratio, so I took the flash **** out of the bottle and filled it with water, adjusted the flow and she runs smooth now, more importantly once she got to operating temperature I tried to make the engine ping by lugging it, not a sound. So today I will start playing with the timing, initial set at zero right now, hope to be able to raise it to 5 or 6 degrees, which would bring my total to the recommended 35 for my c9 heads. And then maybe also run a less expensive unleaded, adding the flash **** direct to the tank.
Henk from Oz
Henk from Oz