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| Major Ignition Improvement...CHEAP! |
| By John - 09/21/2004 8:18:09 PM; IP 142.177.81.15 |
| Well....Holy Smokes! What an improvement. After a few years of thinking about it (I always wanted to be a procrastinator, but kept putting it off) I finally spent about $75 and bought a Pertronix solid-state replaceement kit for my dual-point distributor in my 428. Really, I only expected to get better reliability from it, as I was tired keeping the points spotless all the time. BUT, a major improvement in power and smoothness was noted. Whole different driving experience. Best money I ever spent! But then the brain did some sub-concious thinking and finally in a flash, it came to me. That wasn't the only thing I did. Because my distributor hold-down clamp is painted, and because I read recently about how oil film can build up insulating varnish, etc. I also added a ground wire to the distributor body. Easy to do as I connected it with the screw that formerly held the external condensor to the aluminum distributor body. So.....is the Pertronix unit really responsible for my significant ignition improvement,, or is the ground wire helping me make a better ground and subsequently more coil current? Anyway, I dont' care...the engine "barks" at an idle and changes to a super smooth roar as the rpm increases. So, I highly recommend the Pertronix Unit, but for those of you not quite ready to plunk down the $75, try just addding an external ground wire first. Of course the moral to the story is the age old tinkering idiom (is "idiom" really the right word?...maybe "parable" is better)...Never try two things at once when messing around with engines. |
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