Posted By: WyleECoyote
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Reman from your favorite local parts house. Usually around 50 clams. Your 383 dist wouldnt of done you any good. The shaft is to short for use in a 440.
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No need to cringe bro . Dog what is going on with you that the content of my (or anyones) post would be getting under your skin?. What works for me is: to ignore the stuff I dont agree with/apologise when I post something erroneous (which hopefully ain't too often)/try to give helpfull advice wording it as a suggestion rather than a must do/ignore the haters on here unless they jump on me personally. Every post should offer or attempt to offer something constructive so with that in mind here goes: I believe there is ALOT of gain to be had by dialing in the curve dead on with the dist installed cuz every eng is different. If the OP wants a new drop in dist which will be close but not dead on then I'm sure he is capable of making that decision & yes taking the center clip out is a pain but it ain't bad once you get the hang of it. RR
Quote:(1) You first (2) Nacho had tipped me to something (I forgot what exactly) that was wrong with it & I took that at face value.
RR , why are you so sensitive when someone doesn't agree with suggestion and says something about it ?
Maybe you should heed your own advice to ignore it and move on ...
Also , I'm curious , what's SUPPOSEDLY wrong with the Mallory unit ??
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So a stock electronic distributor isn't any good?
Quote:There ya go double R & I can locate/send you a copy if you like (I kept your address). Sounds like the best plan is to rework an older one (my preference) or for a plug & play to purchase a Firecore. Cnxt thank you for the vindication/info & now that you mentioned it what Nacho mentioned was spark scatter, something on the plate iirc was not right
Cut-n-paste about problems with newer MP distributor
The whole story is in the Feb '14 Mopar Action.
Mopar performance is out of the electronic conversion market at this point which isn't necessarily a bad thing based on recent reports.
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Cut-n-paste about problems with newer MP distributor
The whole story is in the Feb '14 Mopar Action.
I just read the Mopar Action article. I've used the newer MP distributor in the past and it worked in my application but both the mechanical advance and vacuum advance were disabled. The distributor was locked out. Based on that I can't comment on the spark scatter issue from a personal perspective but i have seen some erratic timing on other car's i've helped to tune. It can be frustrating swapping out springs and resetting/adjusting mechanical advance with marginal results. :P
The MA article does make mention of the FireCore billet distributors and upon testing they found that timing was rock solid with the Firecore unit. Ehrenberg even summerizes the article by saying ; your best option is to find an old 73 distributor and rebuild/modify it or purchase the FireCore unit. More or less of what i've been telling members for the past few years ; Firecore is a top shelf product and i wouldn't be recommending it to my friends if it wasn't.
As for the ECU's ; there is a member on Moparts who has been doing a fair bit of dyno testing on the replacement style ECU's and the only ones he likes are the rev-n-ator and FBO box. All the other chinese knockoffs pull timing and higher rpm and loose power at peak volumetric efficiency which is when the greatest demand on the ignition system occurs.
Mopar performance is out of the electronic conversion market at this point which isn't necessarily a bad thing based on recent reports.
Quote:nicely put and where have you been all my life!
Here goes again.....As many have said before me, and I rely on their veracity, unless your distributor is completely worn out the Pertronix conversion is a slam dunk. But don't expect it to make a difference in how the car runs. You may "feel" a difference, but I remind you that in at least 30% of the population, the placebo effect works.
Now, what will make a difference is getting your advance curve right.
Here I go a little off topic. I divide the automotive world into "weekend drivers" and "weekend racers". Blazin' Bob is a weekend racer. As such, he knows how to recurve a distributor, and the benefits from that. A weekend driver won't generally know how or why to recurve a distributor.
That is why I cringe every time a weekend racer tells a weekend driver to buy a stock rebuilt distributor and put a Pertronix kit in it. The weekend driver, not knowing how or why, will probably not recurve the stock distributor with its lazy curve. On the other hand, if the weekend driver buys a distributor with a high performance curve and stabs it in, the results will be much better. At this point the weekend driver says, "Wow, changing from points to breakerless ignition really woke the car up!" Weekend racers will understand that it was the better curve that woke the car up.
Properly-set-up points type ignitions, especially those triggering an electronic box, will support a very high performance engine. What one gains from the breakerless conversion is repeatability, rpm, and freedom from wear effects.
R.