{"id":84251,"date":"2007-01-15T19:57:27","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T10:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=84251"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:09","slug":"power-check-continued-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20070115\/everyday-events\/power-check-continued-2","title":{"rendered":"Power Check Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_45337402_4.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_45337402_5.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_45337402_6.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_45337402_7.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Undeterred, we headed back to &#8220;2Rinkan&#8221;!!<br \/>\nThis time we&#8217;re checking by changing the ignition timing on the &#8220;Watanabe&#8221;.<br \/>\n1. 8 degrees advanced<br \/>\n2. 6 degrees advanced<br \/>\n3. 10 degrees retarded<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the lineup.<br \/>\nThe first 8 degrees sounded great and had excellent response\u2014this is the one! It felt the best on the test ride too.<br \/>\nThe others we checked for testing purposes.<br \/>\nResults<br \/>\n1. 131.4 hp<br \/>\n2. 130.6 hp<br \/>\n3. 103.8 hp<br \/>\nAs expected, retarded timing is for tuned engines as stated, and the power drops completely!<br \/>\nThe sound was heavy and the throttle response was sluggish.<br \/>\nAnyway, we&#8217;ve hit the 130 hp range, so we should be good to go to TMR now~<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s great~<br \/>\n[HP is a British unit, and PS is a French unit, apparently. By the way, 1 hp is 1.01387 ps~.]<br \/>\nLater, our excellent boss came back from the restroom and found something shocking=<br \/>\nWait&#8230; there&#8217;s a half-price flyer just sitting at the entrance!!!!!<br \/>\nHalf off until 1\/31&#8230; I suddenly feel like I got ripped off&#8230;<br \/>\nTell me, store clerk! Seriously!! This is the worst~<br \/>\nPokidam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Undeterred, we headed back to &#8220;2Rinkan&#8221;!! This time we&#8217;re checking by changing the ignition timing on the &#8220;Watanabe&#8221;. 1. 8 degrees advanced 2. 6 degrees advanced 3. 10 degrees retarded That&#8217;s the lineup. The first 8 degrees sounded great and had excellent response\u2014this is the one! It felt the best on the test ride too. The others we checked for testing purposes. Results 1. 131.4 hp 2. 130.6 hp 3. 103.8 hp As expected, retarded timing is for tuned engines as stated, and the power drops completely! The sound was heavy and the throttle response was sluggish. Anyway, we&#8217;ve hit the 130 hp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55,77],"class_list":["post-84251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog","tag-uotani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}