Steve,


Thank you for what you had written.

It will not be necessary for Brian to apologize.
He and I often have our differences of thought and openly discuss them in the forum.

There are no hard feelings on my part, when someone disagrees with what I write, nor do I think, on Brian's part.

It is different, however, if someone becomes abusive, when he, or his own assumptions are disagreed with. I have seen this happen too, from time to time.

Even I have had my incorrect assumptions that made a few of my inputs, over the last 30 months, look like those of a real 'engine guy wannabe', so to speak...

But there are some misconceptions in the engine world, which most modelers take for fact.
I especially enjoy shattering these misconceptions and have done so several times.


BTW, when I wrote the needles directly control the ignition advance; what I meant is 'the amount of advance', which could also mean retardation (firing after TDC).
But I know of no engine that would actually run in such a state. Zero advance (firing at TDC), I believe, is the minimum.