So ever since my first day with the 4g63 platform I've been told to set it to +10 degrees.

Last night I was googling something and found a gvr4 link to a guy asking about rich knock I believe and everyone said his timin was to aggressive and it should be set to +5 degrees at idle.

Man I've been doing it wrong for 8 years and never blew a motor ill adjust that today.

Yea I live in Florida xD I think it's the opposite

I can get it to +5 by looking at the logger though

Then why does my logger say +10 at idle? If I ground out the ECU and adjust the timing then plug in my logger its still going to show the same value? Or is it going to show closer to +5.

Okie. Perhaps I have something mixed up.

My original question in the thread was referring to the value being shown on my logger. It shows +10

Is this correct or should it show +5

When grounding the ecu for timing adjustment. The ecu will say ok timing should be at 5* then you use the timing light to check and verify timing on the crank pulley. If its not at 5* then adjustment of the cas will need to be completed. The ECU makes all of its timing corrections based off of the cas being set to 5*. If its at lets say 10* then the ecu will still think its set to 5* and make adjustments based off of that. So what your logger says timing is at add 5* on top if you have timing set to 10*

james, was your car fs on craigslist recently?

O, yeah its a rare car, should keep it..

^^ yep yep. That was the plan. Ill probably out it back up again around tax time since ill have extra money on top of what I sell it for.

You have to ground out a plug along the firewall. Check out the vfaq on that!