Update 1/23/12: In the spirit of taking one for the team -you kind reader being ‘the team’, and the ‘taking one’ is me in the form of admitting to not fully considering this subject before I wrote about it, I am writing this update. It will be open ended and hopefully draw further discussion…
The result I was hoping for has finally happened: those with more knowledge/experience than me (Tom, Rick -thanks) have chimed in in the comments section -(though Tom, I think ‘inexperienced’ is a better word than ‘sloppy’). The question of the cam timing had been bothering me since I wrote the first draft of this post -I even made a table to try and figure out what I was missing, but now it seems to be approaching the obvious. For those that are spectators, or as inexperienced as me, this is what I have been thinking and why I have been thinking it.
Background on the subject:
This is the valve timing chart from the factory printed Giulietta Technical Specifications book. Note that this timing is always based on crank position. There are many versions of this chart for the many models over the years.
