The box went in the same way the old one came out. On removal, I noticed that my old was actually was the "Wells" unit that tested the lowest power numbers of the group.
I reduced the timing by 4 degrees and went for a drive. The car has always had a bunch of low end torque, so it is hard to tell if there are any gains from a dead stop. Anything over half throttle just blows off the tires. I still had some detonation. They state that the user may need to retard the timing 2-6 degrees. Thats fine, but by backing out the timing to avoid detonation, I'm also losing the 17 degrees of initial timing that the engine likes. To maximize the gains of this unit, I may either need higher octane gas or some distributor mods. Neither sound all that great to me. The engine runs strong, but it also did before. The rev limiter in the unit does work.
I can say that there is nothing specifically wrong with the product, but I'm not sure yet if I like it.

I got a call out of the blue yesterday from Troy himself. Someone had mentioned to him I had a dyno and he offered to send me one for testing. As I'm currently pretty busy at my real job I declined until things ease up a bit. I thought that was pretty nice of the guy though. Dave

my main concern about the box was DURABILITY, then a similar performance to FBO/Chromed boxes at least ( when they worked )... once that is met allong with no mods on wiring, I'm simply satisfied. If I win some over them, WELCOMED!!!

and I positivelly can notice a better response over chromed and FBO boxes.

What type of distributor are you using? Most of them are fairly easy to recurse so you can get your initial timing back up whee you need it.
I,or others here will help walk you through it if you need help. Unfortunately,sometimes the quest for more performance sometimes requires us to need to change other things to match.
Keith

I gotcha, Kieth.
I probably came across as a bit spoiled in the last post. I should have thought a little more beforehand.
I have a 440 distributor from Mopar Performance as part of their electronic conversion kit. I bought it in 2001. It has been recurved once by a guy that ran a shop with a dyno. He set the initial to 17 degrees and had to limit total mechanical advance to 31 degrees to avoid the dreaded detonation. I have since tried other settings, but this is where the car ran best with 91 octane gas. I'm running 10.8 compression with Edelbrock aluminum heads and a MP '509 cam. I have planned to swap back to a Comp cam again. I liked the street manners of the 285 XE stick when I ran it.

Not a problem,just offering to help. I spent countless days on my dyno with the 440 out of my dually. Carburetor and timing tweaks. Then I put a RevNNator on the truck and had to change the curve in the distributor again to keep from pinging
I really think it was worth it though,8.5-9 mpg towing a heavy enclosed trailer. Never had it's tongue hanging out either.
Keith

It's been a few months since one of these threads has had any info added.

Anyone have anything to say that wasn't covered in previous threads?
Is the failure rate better than the orange boxes?
I'd love for this to be a silver bullet product.