need new dizzy...what to get?

Focker67 · Jul 6, 2005

You are having the same problem as me. I pmed you about it. I think we have too much carb on our motors or they need to be tuned better. My car will start on the first turn and then runs real rich and doesn;t want to idle.

D.Hearne · Jul 6, 2005

Go to your local parts house, buy a rebuilt points DISTRIBUTOR and swap your pertronix unit into it. ( I hate the words dizzy and tranny also :damnit: ) If you can't spell it out, you can always abbreviate it. ( dist. , trans. )

D.Hearne · Jul 6, 2005

Oh, and by the way, the points distributor with the small to large cap adapter fits under the oval aluminum air cleaner on the repop 3x2 Ford intake I have on my 331. It DOES rest on the Ford Racing wire boots, but I've yet to see it suffer any spark over from this.

Jester67 · Jul 6, 2005

D.Hearne said:
repop

Did you mean reproduction? Sorry I just don’t understand this newer generation.

Sorry I just couldn’t resist.

P.S. I like his idea, looks like the cheapest way to go.

SadbutTrue · Jul 6, 2005

jerry S said:
I'd like to help you but I don't listen to hip-hop. Is that some new kind of drug? ;-)

i chuckled

skywalker · Jul 6, 2005

Wow, first off, hip-hop, a form of music I despise and feel pains everytime I'm forced to call it music, ends words in izzle, such as fo' ****zle my nizzle. Not izzy.

Second, is it that hard to write out reproduction instead of repop when you're critical of people calling a distributor a dizzy or a transmission a tranny?

Third, why did the way some people choose to shorten words become so a big topic in this thread?

Fourth, D.Hearne's suggestion is the cheapest, though an MSD will likely make you happier in the long run.

Fifth, the gent with the mallory problem: you're the first I've ever heard with a Mallory problem.

Sixth, DUI is a good distributor also.

Seventh, I've got nothing.

D.Hearne · Jul 7, 2005

Jester67 said:
Did you mean reproduction? Sorry I just don’t understand this newer generation.

Sorry I just couldn’t resist.

P.S. I like his idea, looks like the cheapest way to go.

Touche

Platonic Solid · Jul 7, 2005

What a great thread! Educational and entertaining.

Hey, I play keyboards. Anyone want to start a band? We can call it:

Repop Dizzy

90LX306 · Jul 7, 2005

hopefully the MSD distributor's for the carbed motors are better, but everyone i have talked to who used them on their EFI motor has had it **** then bed on them. IMO MSD Blows.

skywalker · Jul 7, 2005

90LX306 said:
hopefully the MSD distributor's for the carbed motors are better, but everyone i have talked to who used them on their EFI motor has had it **** then bed on them. IMO MSD Blows.

Umm...okay, have you actually used them yourself?

LMan · Jul 7, 2005

Ive always used MSD, its never let me down. Good product.

65up2d8 · Jul 8, 2005

90LX306 said:
hopefully the MSD distributor's for the carbed motors are better, but everyone i have talked to who used them on their EFI motor has had it **** then bed on them. IMO MSD Blows.

skywalker said:
Umm...okay, have you actually used them yourself?

This is a disturbing opinion considering the fact that I've had bad luck with Mallory distributors. But, I agree with skywalker's thought that personal experiences carry more weight. As I stated in my earlier post, perhaps I just received a lemon in my Mallory Unilite distributor, and had I replaced it with another Unilite, all problems may have disappeared; I'll never know because I was so pissed that I vowed to myself that I'd never own another Mallory component.

With respect to you friends' issues with MSD distributors, however, could you be more specific? I specifically stated my problem with the Mallory distributor; every time it rained, my car wouldn't freakin' start! What sort of problems are you aware of with respect to MSD distributors?

mustangman70 · Jul 8, 2005

Ive had my 6t box and pro billit dist, with MSD wires on the car for more then a year and a half now with not ONE problem......OH did i mention i got the box used for 25 bucks

mustangdave · Jul 9, 2005

A couple of years ago, I remember several people bashing Mallory. I've never heard anything bad about MSD DISTRIBUTORS but had a friend that had two 6A boxes crap out within a year. MSD replaced them free but never did figure out why they went bad.

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