[Fot] Blackhawk Farms, Success with some problems

[davehogye]

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 at bnj.com> 
To: "Jason Ostrowski" <jason at multivintage.com> 
Cc: fot at 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 at 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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