Re: MSD + Vintage Tach??
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12/19/17 09:46 PM
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Went through this a few years ago. Had an older Sun tach I wanted to use with MSD. It wasn't the older ones with the sender box,,just a late '60's early '70's one piece. I bought the tach adapter from MSD and it worked fine. The adapter was about $80-90. I looked at Sun's web page and found they make a tach that looks 'retro' that will plug right into the MSD box. Don't remember the exact price, but wasn't real bad.
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Re: MSD + Vintage Tach??
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12/20/17 12:35 AM
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The old Sun tachs were a joke. I had a couple that just went to any RPM's that it wanted , acted like a windshield wiper LOL. Went to Auto meter and never had a problem after that, That must have been in the early 70's. I think the cable drive tachs look the most vintage like in the photo above.
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Re: MSD + Vintage Tach??
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12/20/17 04:10 PM
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You can convert the point style to a magnetic pickup and use it with the newer ignitions, I've had Pertronics convert several dual point Accel distributors to magnetic pick up and use them with the MSD race 7 series boxes I'm not sure if you can still buy a over the counter conversion kit for the older Mopar dual points distributors or not, maybe on E bay I have several of those old dual point tach drive distributors in the spare parts cabinet along with other ignition spare parts.
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Re: MSD + Vintage Tach??
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12/20/17 08:36 PM
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I use the old MP electronic distributor with the tach drive. There are still some of them around...we may even have a couple around in boxes somewhere. I use a Moroso cable with an old SW mechanical tach from the old DC catalog. Been using it for forty some odd years.....there are a couple of old dual points with tach drives on Ebay now, pretty cheap, you could send it out someplace to be converted to electronic and rebushed... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mopar-426-Hemi-Race-Tach-Drive-Distributor-Prestolite/382311702025?hash=item59038d9e09:g:pEEAAOSwsFpaNRC4&vxp=mtr
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Re: MSD + Vintage Tach??
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12/21/17 01:48 AM
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Tom, I still use the MSD 6AL box. I just use the MP distributor. We'll see you this summer. Looking forward to it. Merry Christmas, my friend.
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