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Old 01-12-2019, 07:28 PM   #26
tjw
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Originally Posted by Ol' Ron View Post
Well we bought one of these back a few years ago, and couldn't figger out how to make it work. The distributors didn't line up with the gear on the cam. Was also told we had to have a CCW distributor for the drivers side, so I got a Pontiac dist. I could see this was going to be to complicated to work for us. My stupid factor is pretty high. That cover is pretty expensive. just how much does a working dual distributor system like that cost?
With my system you could run two stock distributors, and with the right carb should work just fine.
Hi Ron I am sure you did not buy one off me, someone else was making something similar to mine at one stage.. I have never had any conversation with yourself about using a Pontiac distributor on one side and have never advised any one to use them [ the Pontiac distributor would most likely not line up with gears anyway as the length of it would be wrong ... I only use two 8ba distributors which line up correctly and I have a video of the test engine running using this set up. MESSAGE me your email address and I will send you a copy of the video to view. [ If any one else wants a copy of the engine running video please send me your email address. ] I will see if I can load it on here first .. As far as cost is concerned, I think they are fairly priced as it is not a cheapo item to manufacture, by the time you cost in the pattern to make them, cast it, machine it, ship it etc. I run an electronic ignition with both modules in the one distributor as you will see in the photo which has never given us any problems at all.
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