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MSD E Curve Distributor
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01/22/11 02:55 PM
01/22/11 02:55 PM
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Joined: Dec 2003
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West Coast, CA
Troy
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West Coast, CA
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Hello everybody.I have a question for you all. A friend of mind is dropping in one of these new MSD E Curve distributor. It is a real nice looking unit buy I have one BIG question. According to the directions that came with the distributor you "drop in the distributor with the rotor pointing to the #1 terminal on the cap and then tighten down the distributor housing". That is all fine but they do not tell you WHERE to rotate the housing TOO and tighten it down. How does the distributor know when to send the signal to the coil and tell the coil when to fire??  Thanks everybody!!
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Re: MSD E Curve Distributor
[Re: Troy]
#910705
01/22/11 08:22 PM
01/22/11 08:22 PM
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Lincoln Nebraska
RapidRobert
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That is all fine but they do not tell you WHERE to rotate the housing TOO and tighten it down.
15 seems kinda aggressive (to me) for an initial setting but for 15 get the marks on 15 BTDC #1 compression as you know, then turn the housing until the vac can is roughly where you want it & has room to be moved back/forth AND line up the nearest reluctor vane dead even w the magnet slot AND the rotor is under (or close to being under) the cap terminal w the #1 wire. I'd maintain the factory vac can/#1 wire location for standardization. Lightly snug the base clamp & your ready to time it. EDIT (re)read your post & your already ahead of me
Last edited by RapidRobert; 01/22/11 08:24 PM.
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Re: MSD E Curve Distributor
[Re: RapidRobert]
#910706
01/22/11 09:40 PM
01/22/11 09:40 PM
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So Cal
autoxcuda
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So Cal
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That is all fine but they do not tell you WHERE to rotate the housing TOO and tighten it down.
15 seems kinda aggressive (to me) for an initial setting but for 15 get the marks on 15 BTDC #1 compression as you know, then turn the housing until the vac can is roughly where you want it & has room to be moved back/forth AND line up the nearest reluctor vane dead even w the magnet slot AND the rotor is under (or close to being under) the cap terminal w the #1 wire. I'd maintain the factory vac can/#1 wire location for standardization. Lightly snug the base clamp & your ready to time it. EDIT (re)read your post & your already ahead of me
I agree with that procedure...
But this E-curve distributor does not have reluctor vane or pickup that you can see. That is the issue we are having. There nothing to line up? BTW, there is no vacuum can either.
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Re: MSD E Curve Distributor
[Re: Troy]
#910708
01/23/11 12:14 PM
01/23/11 12:14 PM
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Posts: 316
Coolville, Ohio
Lew
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Coolville, Ohio
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Hello everybody.I have a question for you all.
A friend of mind is dropping in one of these new MSD E Curve distributor. It is a real nice looking unit buy I have one BIG question. According to the directions that came with the distributor you "drop in the distributor with the rotor pointing to the #1 terminal on the cap and then tighten down the distributor housing". That is all fine but they do not tell you WHERE to rotate the housing TOO and tighten it down. How does the distributor know when to send the signal to the coil and tell the coil when to fire??OK troy i am not going to be much help but this all i have for now, put it in like they say, it will fire up, we put one in this past fall, have not got to tune on it yet due to winter setting in on us, tuning appears to be easy once you get your head wraped around it.
Thanks everybody!!
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