Low temp thermostat

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Too often the lights are on and no one's home
Grumpy
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><< with say 34 degrees total advance... more 
> drops power, less drops power.  You richen the mixture and advance timing, 
> what you've done is slowed the burn (rich mixture) and bandaided it by 
> advancing the timing... you're probably at less total power than you had at 
> the warmer temp/leaner mixture/less timing. >>
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>Interesting..makes sense to me. Although as weird as it seems, maybe its 
>crappy gas, my car seems more suseptible to ping when rich as well as lean. 
>Once the mix is right, it seems to be pretty good w.detonation. Heck, I run 
>23-24* at WOT on pump gas..no alky with 2-3* retard. I'm gonna play with the 
>timing now, cuz what you say makes a lot of sense. If I can make more power 
>with more accurate with mixture and less timing I'll be a little further from 
>the ragged edge.
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>Jim
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