[Grant]

Hi bob,

My Fuel Cut Solenoid (FCS) is working just fine. I'm not sure how cutting fuel causes the backfire, but if that's how it's supposed to work, that's fine by me. I know it works because when I was adjusting the mixture again today, I forgot to re-connect the wire to the FCS and it was noticeably different when I abruptly lifted off on the throttle.

It's possible my ignition timing was way too retarded. The adjustment was almost to the end of the retarded position on the distributor column, and I was able to advance it quite a bit until I thought I heard pinging at around 3500 rpm, WOT.

I looked at the plugs, they weren't a golden brown color, looked a bit lean, which was what I was aiming for to try to get better MPG, but the porcelain was cracked on at least one of the electrodes. I don't think this was from the brief amount of time I was messing with the advance...it could just be that the plugs are old.

Unfortunately, I don't have a timing light at my school and my buddy that does is at the 24 hours of Lemons.

The AROO spica manual is located here:
Renting a Spica Adjustment tool

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