Something In my #5 Cylinder?
HI I'M THE OP. I'm a younger guy and learning boost. Are you calling me a dinosaur? I don't understand why you seem pissed at me in your post. I've never looked into a 6AL-2 but I will now.
Seriously, for boost I wouldn't use a 6 box from any brand.
Why you ask? Because you ain't no different than the rest of us. Pretty soon you'll be jacking up the boost and now you are buying another system and spending money you don't need to twice.
This is one of the places where more is better. I'd get a 7AL3 box and use that and get the grid later if you can't or don't want to spend all that cash now.
BTDT when I switched to the magneto from my battery fired stuff. The guy doing my machine work at the time was dead set on using a mag. This was a 14:1 alcohol injected W2 engine. On the dyno you could see the engine losing power above 6000. So I wanted the mag, and the guy said you'll loose power. It takes 20 HP just to drive the mag (how he pulled that out of his *** IDK because the FACT is it takes less that 1 HP to drive the mag...I've even see pin WJ make that silly claim) and all you need is an alternator. Early A body, with a belt drive fuel pump and front mounted fuel cell so it was a nightmare to get the alternator mounted. Took the engine back out and another day on the dyno. Guess what?? Didn't do ****. And, we had to gap the plugs at .020 to get it to turn 8000 anyway.
So I bought the mag. Everything else the same. Back on the dyno. Again. When it lit off, you could tell it wasn't the same. Not even close. It sounded differently. First pull and it was 20 HP better. And it was pig rich because the weak, battery fired ignition couldn't fire the cylinders at the correct a/f ratios.
By the end of the day, I was up 35 HP with a real safe tune up and the engine would run to 8500.
Moral of the story is: buy your ignition upgrade once, or at least buy a system that will let you upgrade with out buying every piece new. Otherwise you just keep spending and spending.
