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Old 09-30-2010, 10:44 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by autoteach View Post
You would be looking to advance the intake and retard the exhaust. Running both at +4 would negate the gains of the one with the losses of the other. When we were doing some work on a motorcycle engine for another application, we pulled a significant amount of overlap out of the engine. Stock was 110 degrees crank. I believe we removed 24 degrees total. Take your +4 on the exhaust and go -4 and tell us how it goes.

Looking at this picture would indicate that exhaust would need to be advanced and intake retarded to reduced the overlap. is this the goal to low end power gains?

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