Setting Dwell

BillGrissom said

'64 Cuda,

My '65 Newport had the Delta CD ignition box, yellow finned aluminum. They probably sold a lot of them in J.C. Whitney. It also seemed to act erratic. It had a toggle button on the side you could press in to bypass, and the car ran better straight off the points. Strange that they used ~22 awg ribbon cable for the wiring. I replaced it with the Crane XR700 ~1995.

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Don't know what brand mine was but there wasn't any togggle switch. It had a big transistor on the side or top, don't recall. It had flat pieces of stuff like printed circuit board on the ends of the wires (might have been ribbon cable) that connected it to the coil. IIRC it had black thumb wheels on the coil connections & we spun them off & reconnected the old wires back to the coil. Of course, that was about 35 years ago so my memory is a bit fuzzy. I trashed it & didn't look back. Later switched it over to a factory Prestolite dual point distributor that turned into a small diagnostic nightmare.