Improved gas milage with T/A?

[Redfire03GT]

I believe I have noticed a pretty nice improvement with gas milage after installing the timing adjuster, am I on crack or is that one of the, per se, side effects of it?

As far as performance gains, once again, maybe I'm on crack but, I don't really notice a thing. Also, as far as I can tell, I have it at 15 degrees and I'm running 91 w/ no audible pinging. Besides a slightly negligable improvement in throttle response, I don't seem to notice the 7-10rwhp/tq that the butt dyno's out there have reported.

I noticed a much greater improvement in performance from the plenum/tb combo but, it "supposedly" only increases the hp/tq around the same range, correct?

Being at 260rwhp/302rwtq before the T/A, shouldn't that have crept me closer to the 270 hp range along with about 312 tq? Granted if the most power possible was achieved for this given application.

 

[~Stangzorized~]

You're not going to feel 10 hp/tq.

 

[Bulldog6Z6]

havent noticed gas mileage being any better on my car. I felt a good increase in low in/throttle response, but I do agree plenum/tb made more power SOTP.

 

[Redfire03GT]

Well, after taking the car out tonight just to do some quick high rev runs, the car does seem to be a bit stronger on the top end with a little better response in throttle through out the band. Whether or not it's 10hp/tq, I don't know but, I'm still hoping I've crept closer to the 270/312 mark I'd like to hit.

 

[huesmann]

And here I was wondering if he thought his torque arm increased mileage.