timing light update

[MR DERBY CITY]

Originally Posted by Woodfin

As an experiment, I bought a new MSD #8992 timing light. The good news is that it is much, much brighter than the 40-year-old model. With the old model, the marks were not visible in direct sunlight. The new model shows the marks easily visible in direct sun. My take is that the performance of the old light did, in fact, degrade over time.

This is an old trick us hillbilly s from Kentucky use when setting timing in direct sunlight. We pull the hood down a few inches to block the sunlight. Hope this helps ….