you never know how easy is to drive actual cars until you have a classic like our coupes
but you never know how easy is to deal with the coupe until you have a pre-war thing
my prewar R2 has a manual advance lever in the handle bar, this means that you set the lever at no advance for starting the engine, and then while driving as rpms increase you need to advance ignition accordingly, and obviously when you reduce rpms you need to reduce advance too
this is very comfortable, yes, but my question was, how to set iginition ?
in the e9, you have two nice marks in the flywheel, the OT (Top Dead Center) and the "ball" for 22 degrees BTDC (so the advance at 1700 rpms), from there on, the distributor has two other ways to add advance automatically (cinetic and vacuum, both mechanical as you can see)
the R2 is a bit less sophisticated, and she has NO marks in the flywheel, good !
so then you go to the manual, yeah, there is a manual actually, dtaed 1931, cool, but what ? it says nothing about it, except a nice diagram that among other issues has a marginal note: máximum advance 9,5mm, in perfect German, you may notice it or not
but you never know how easy is to deal with the coupe until you have a pre-war thing
my prewar R2 has a manual advance lever in the handle bar, this means that you set the lever at no advance for starting the engine, and then while driving as rpms increase you need to advance ignition accordingly, and obviously when you reduce rpms you need to reduce advance too
this is very comfortable, yes, but my question was, how to set iginition ?
in the e9, you have two nice marks in the flywheel, the OT (Top Dead Center) and the "ball" for 22 degrees BTDC (so the advance at 1700 rpms), from there on, the distributor has two other ways to add advance automatically (cinetic and vacuum, both mechanical as you can see)
the R2 is a bit less sophisticated, and she has NO marks in the flywheel, good !
so then you go to the manual, yeah, there is a manual actually, dtaed 1931, cool, but what ? it says nothing about it, except a nice diagram that among other issues has a marginal note: máximum advance 9,5mm, in perfect German, you may notice it or not