Thread: 1972 280SE 4.5 timing-pertronixII-disrtibutor
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Old 12-26-2012, 11:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Graham View Post
If you have the 1972manual, the USA 117 and 116 do have quite different specs for advance at 1500/3000 rpm (Greater advance for the 116 engine). Other specs, for example at idle, are not much different. This would likely mean that the centrifugal advance cams are different.

I may be wrong, but I don't think this would be the cause of the distributor install alignment.
In deed they are very different.

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mean that the centrifugal advance cams are different.
I have no idea on how to eat that! .... Is there anything I should consider doing to compensate that?
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