Henry's 70 Dart Swinger

not sure if anyone is going to see this post, but here it goes.

need some thoughts from the ignition gurus.

car was driving fine and then it just started sputtering and dying on me. so I pulled over and couldn't find a single thing wrong. I just filled with gas, so I thought...bad gas or dirt got to the carb.

so I finally got it running again. drove it home. then it wouldn't even start in the garage. me and my dad went through the carb...def not a gas issue....changed coil....not coil....checked points gap....not gap.

finally it came down to it and I said...what of the condenser....it was the condenser...replaced it and it fired right off and we high fived and went to the beer.

drove fine around town, then sat for about 3-4 weeks. got it out today and drove about 30 miles before it started doing the same thing again.

so I replaced the points and the condenser on the side of the road and not having a way to set the gap I got it as close as I could and hobbled home with it running like crap.

got home....changed coil to a known working one. put in new points and condenser correctly since I couldn't on the road. got it running and set timing. the dwell is at 38...a bit high. gonna have to set that gap a bit better.

took the car for a spin...it cruises just fine and accelerates fine. but if you floor it....it falls right on its *** and runs like its missing and etc... just wont do crap. then you get off of it and cruises fine.

so I guess my questions are.

1. is the points gap not being perfect have to do with the falling on its *** when flooring?

2. why the hell do I keep eating through condensers?

the coil is brand new Mallory 58k coil. is that just too much for the condensers and it is frying them? I put back the known working coil, borg warner 55k coil. never had a problem for 20 years from original points and coil. so right now its got the original borg warner coil that's been on there forever and working.....and new points....and new condenser. but it falls on its *** when I floor it. and I'm afraid I'm going to eat another condenser up again.

my dad is coming by again tomorrow to look at it, but I'm just wondering what you guys think about the eating of the condensers. what the hell are we missing here? 20 years same coil/points/condenser and it never ever had any issues.

I do all this nice work to it and the damn thing acts like a little turd.