Just got my electronic ignition in the mail today from Mancini Racing. I was wanting to know if anyone has any pointers or suggestions before I install it this weekend?
Is that a plastic gear?
Just got my electronic ignition in the mail today from Mancini Racing. I was wanting to know if anyone has any pointers or suggestions before I install it this weekend?
You don’t need to remove the two wire connector and solder the wires together; how are you going to be able to easy remove that distributor in the future? Just clean the engine harness’s side of that two wire connection, dab dielectric grease on its contacts, and connect them up. You will have no trouble with this connector, it’s the same weather tight connection found in the lighting circuits.
If you plan on recurving this distributor, that connector will be most welcome.
Soldering and shrink wrapping splices to the electronic ignition sub harness is a good idea.
Nylon gear lasts forever; factory installed them in millions of these engines over the years.
I had to check this is a distributor out of my 73 duster, first year of the electronic ignition.
This distributor was taken out in the 1980's when my wife blew the motor from not checking the oil, 75K miles.
I tried real hard to get a pic with the distributor tag.
It has the nylon gear, this motor locked up tight on the interstate and the distrubutor still works great today, I would not worry about the nylon gear.
May be slant6dan will chime in.
yep. no metal gears available. maybe a slanter with a machining background could make one and sell it.
Make sure you have a coil that will work with electronic ignition. I swapped mine over 2 years ago with an autozoo '73 distributor and black ignition box and a Summit Racing harness. 2 weeks later, the car backfired and died leaving me and my sister (and her kids) stranded on the side of the road. The electronic ignition fried the coil. So me and dad went back to autozoo and got a '73 coil. It's worked fine ever since.Use the ballast resistor that came in the kit. You need one to protect both your coil and the module and using their's insures the correct value. Don't get confused reading about a "dual ballast". That was for an early design that needed a 5 ohm resistor to protect the module itself. Your module has 4 pins so wouldn't use the 2nd ballast.
Did the kit come with a coil? If not, do the instructions say what coils work? I have seen some round factory ones that have "electronic ignition" printed on them, so they probably vary from the points ones in primary resistance. Maybe you can use an MSD Blaster 2 coil. All confusing to me, which is why I prefer HEI and no ballasts.