[Deuce Man]

Some time back a friend bought a very nice 50 Merc with a high dollar flathead. He could never get it to run decently. Ripped it out and gave it to me for my flathead project. It had two 97's and the original distributor was running on manifold vacuum,[wont work]. I took the catalogs advice where it says" the best thing you can do for your flathead" and bought a Mallory full centrifugal dual point distributor. Started right up, and I drove it many miles. I was never really satrisfied with the performance. If I ran enouugh advance where it started to feel a little more responsive, it sounded like I was going to knock a hole in the top of the pistons. I sent an old chevy distributor to Bubba and had it recurved and cut down to fit my flathead. This was the single biggest improvement I ever did to this car in the 10 or 12 years I have driven it.In the beginning I was like a kid with a new toy. I hammered it quite a bunch, afraid I was going to blow it up I disclipined myself and drove more conservatively. My gas mileage went up a bunch, I just sounds a whole lot sweeter out the back, and has a whole lot more punch, and runs 10-15 degrees cooler! Win-Win situation- thanks Bubba. Rich