[Tigers] Best distributor for Tiger

David T Johnson djoh797014 at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 11 20:48:05 MDT 2010


The late Steve Yates of IN SAAC was up at Road American in his one of a kind
Shelby 350S.  He kept blowing head gaskets.  Lots of steam no damage.
He finally borrowed a camera nad put in the back seat.  It revealed the
problem.  When running at full power coming into the hair pin that runs
uphill, he would downshift to 2nd and floor it through the turn.  The camera
clearly showed the tach was over 10K.  Not many Ford V8s will
run 10K.  Its not a VTEC Honda.
 
When asked how he could be driving such a rare car Steve's response
'Ask Shelby.  His cars are meant to be driven'.  That was Steve all over.
 
Keep you RPMs in mid when downshifting.
 
Steve was a great Tiger supporter and his wife had an early black dasj
Tiger that I worked on.  She traded the Tiger for an original Shelby 289
Cobra and has kept Steve's 350S.
--- On Fri, 6/11/10, Jerry & Maureen (Mo) <JCMC2006 at suddenlink.net> wrote:


From: Jerry & Maureen (Mo) <JCMC2006 at suddenlink.net>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Best distributor for Tiger
To: "'Would U. Believe'" <mcdangerous at verizon.net>, rfraser at bluefrog.com
Cc: "'Smit, Theo'" <Theo.Smit at dynastream.com>, tigers at autox.team.net
Date: Friday, June 11, 2010, 4:13 PM


List,

Those of you changing to the Pertronics modules, be sure to check out the
newer Pertronics III, among other things it has a rev limiter.  I've
installed several on Mustangs and they seem to work very well.

They are a little more expensive, but for that once in a lifetime missed
shift and the engine goes to a RPM you've never heard before.  It's cheep
insurance

Jerry Christopherson
9473187

-----Original Message-----
From: tigers-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Would U. Believe
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 6:15 PM
To: rfraser at bluefrog.com
Cc: 'Smit, Theo'; tigers at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Best distributor for Tiger

Ron,

That's good news.  This is the one I have with my MKII engine.  I also have
two Mallory twin point distributors I was thinking about using -- one with
vacuum advance and other not.  So, I plan to use the original distributor
with a Pertronix Ignitor II setup. I have the Ignitor II in my 260 engine's
distributor and the tach works fine.  Thanks!

P.S.  I still owe you all the numbers off the components of my engine(s).
Please rest assured that I won't forget!  Cheers.


On 6/10/10 12:36 AM, "Ron Fraser" <rfraser at bluefrog.com> wrote:

> The MK II, 289 engine: stock distributor is C5AF-12127-M and has vacuum
> advance.
>
> This is a later style Ford distributor; that means it does not have an oil
> port and the center section has a tri-lobe shape.   Any later style
> distributor will work and you can still buy them from any Mustang or Ford
> car catalog.
>
> I would use a later style Ford distributor with a Pertronix or similar
> ignition module.  I have used this combination for  almost 20 years now
with
> no problems.
>
> Ron Fraser
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tigers-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Would U. Believe
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 7:57 PM
> To: michael king
> Cc: Smit, Theo; tigers at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Tigers] Best distributor for Tiger
>
>
> Michael,
>
> Stock 3appearance2, not really stock.   All I want are performance
> improvements with stock appearance, but nothing that would cause me to
have
> to make irreversible modifications.  These are my requirements.   What9s
the
> part number for the stock distributor for a MKII Tiger?  Thanks.
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