so the other day while doing a burnout, i was told it sounds like the engine was misfiring.
looking inside the distributor cap, i see there is a fair amount of carbon scoring, sounds like things are jumping around in there.
it is a mopar electronic distributor with the tan cap, and it is vented, and an MSD system.
how do i go about fixing this? is it just possible that the vent isn't enough and i need to drill some more holes in the cap?
Vents not the problem. Mopar distributors are poor quality these days. Just installed one in my street rod. Distributor cap button was 1/2 gone?? One advance spring was rubbing on the under side of the advance plate. Pick up magnet was not parallel to the reluctor - about .010 variance top to bottom. Surprisingly, when I spun it up, signal variation was less than 1 degree, so I am using it - but it's a turd. BTW, the curve out of the box is extremely slow - all in at like 4K.
