Continuing ignition timing debate from the 416 thread.
In the post you mentioned that your distributor Machine has a signal generator so you can test modules with out a distributor and that you didn't know of any other distributor machine that could do that. Neither do I. But if someone was interested in adding one to their machine or if the generator on their machine should fail, Msd makes one that is stand alone and seems reasonably priced in my opinion. So I posted the part #. I thought it was useful information. I ordered one yesterday and when it gets here I will let you know what it's like. I'm happy to see you took time to look at the link and share your thoughts.
I’m not sure my machine has a signal generator, which is why I didn’t mention it.
I’m not 100% sure exactly how it works but I know the electronics in it (as old school as they may be) requires a way to change what the machine does.
It does that with aluminum “cards” that are a bit bigger than a post card. Without those, the machine is useless unless you have those cards.
When I got the machine it had one card. And no instructions. So I had to do a ton of research to find someone with the machine and who had all these cards, and who would trust me enough to loan me the cards so I could get them made.
I found a guy in Minnesota with all the cards but he didn’t have the instructions. I found a guy who was (and may still be) writing for car magazines with the instructions and he was missing a card.
So I had an extra card made for him and he sent me a scan of the instructions.
In the end we all have a full set of cards and instructions.
The other thing is this machine will rpm to almost 12k. I don’t know of another machine that does that except maybe the King machine but I’ve only seen pictures of that. It certainly looked capable of that and more.