Hey guys, I recently had a stock distributor rebuild and upgraded by Jeff at
Advanced Distributors for my TR3A, after reading Kas' new book. It's looks as
nice as it possibly could be. I haven't run it yet, but I'm confident it will
work great. Jeff said his rebuilds are about 50/50, points/electronic for race
car rebuilds and both systems have their own issues. I went with Pertronics. If
you're curious, check out his websites' many testimonials on cars being
awakened by his work. A worksheet is sent with the dist. regarding your engine
build and he sets them up for that engine. He'll do recurves for $20 if you
change something. The price was great with cap and wires included.
Regards,
Dave Hogye
NFI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Babcock" <billb@bnj.com>
To: "Jason Ostrowski" <jason@multivintage.com>
Cc: fot@autox.team.net
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 6:11:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Fot] Blackhawk Farms, Success with some problems
I stuck with points on Peyote for years. I did, however, use a mallory dual
point disty. The lucas distributors in my experience wear quickly and give
inconsistent timing. A pertronix is the easiest way to fix that since the
runout has little effect on the timing. But you need 14 V for them to work
really well. If you don't have an alternator then you might have problems--at
least they used to. Garmey fitted an alternator on Peyote so he could be sure
I wouldn't have dead battery issues and so we could run electronics. I'm still
arguing with him about it, but it's been dead reliable after some initial
teething issues.
On Jun 20, 2011, at 5:36 PM, Jason Ostrowski wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Tim Murphy <timmurph@fastbytes.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Anybody on the list have any ideas on that?
>>
>> Tim,
>> My guess is that most everyone is going to tell you that electronic
>> ignition is the way to go.
>> It may very well be.
>> However, Maybe as devils advocate, My car has always had points, runs well
>> normally, in the 6000 to 7300 range and could do more if needed.
>> I have taken a simple philosophy with my car that seems to have been
>> serving me well. The guys that built it knew what they were doing and
raced
>> it hard for 30 years. So in most cases, I put my attention on maintaining
>> it, "as raced" which already takes all the time and money that I have. I
>> keep a close eye on the wear in the distributor and have had none thus
far.
>> In my case, and I may be a lucky one, I'm still on the same set of points
>> from its last professional rebuild at least 14 years ago (the car sat for
12
>> years) so for me after 9 racing weekends so far... not a misfire yet. So
>> again, I thought I would change to electronic ignition as well. But, with
>> many spare sets of points and condensers remaining in the spares box. I
>> think I'll use them up before switching over just yet... Call me crazy?!?
>>
>> Jason Ostrowski
>> Friendly Ghost Racing
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