Theyve always been literally great for me, and definately solved my high speed miss situation in one of the drag cars.
Fixed it for you.
That’s interesting, you use a product, have “literally great” results from said product, solved problems with said product, yet you do not endorse that product when someone “claims” they are junk. I agree you should be a fanboy but I don’t agree with “keeping your mouth shut and staying on the fence”.
What’s your time worth? I feel as though you like projects like this but I’d probably bite the bullet and get another box.
One more thing, no one ever walks up to the tower at a drag strip and asks the announcer to ask how many people out there have perfectly working MSD ignition boxes. In the same vein, no one ever posts a topic on a web forum just to let everyone know how good their MSD ignition box (or comp flat tappet cam) works. The failures are easy to count, the successes are not.
I'm mostly troubleshooting it for my own amusement and curiousity. My get it running plans are to bypass the box and run without it, and my long term plans are to put in an ignition system that makes the 6A look like a set of 6 volt breaker points.
"Redundancy" Why would you need an extra if they don't fail? Most serious race cars have 2 (just in case of a failure) and you often find an extra box or two in every race car trailer. It seems the old ones could last a long time. I hear not so much with the newer built models.
What on earth would that be???
But you left out the most important part of the quote....i dont usually jump on one side or the other because i havent bought a new msd box in years. It seems everyone griping is peeved with company since they left El Paso. I have no experience from that point forward....but you are right, my old stuff soldiers on, with better spark than anything Mopar ever made, original or aftermarket, as far as i have known.
Because to get an entire race team to Mexico and race the baja 1000 or 500 or any other race we enter costs 10s of thousands of dollars and we have redundancy on every system in the truck so something stupid doesn’t take us out of a race. Think airplane style redundancy. Fuel pumps, alternators, ps pumps, driveshafts, suspension links, etc, you name it and we carry two of it. We’ve never used the spare MSD box in the 15 years I’ve raced with the team.
I was giving you ****. It’s fun. And I can tell you have an awesome attitude about it. Thanks for that.
Crank fired coil per plug with IGN-1A coils. They're similar spark energy on paper, but I've seen them lighting off over 400 hp per cylinder. And timing is way more accurate than a distributor pickup.
This is almost comical.....so, you are going to run $800 worth of ignition coils fired off a crank trigger?? How much horsepower per cylinder are you running? And whats your total cost to replace your $300 current ignition?? Really curious to know if you are going to run the MSD crank trigger??
LOL I had to figure that link out. THAT is QUITE the writeup!!
I’ve used the stock LS truck coils to make more than 1200hp. I’ve also used the stock Honda V6 coils to make more than 600hp. While nowhere near 400hp/cyl it’s probably similar to what you’re trying to do.
Might not be your fault. MSD had a run of distributors that did that. Rusted all to heck and back under the cap. I've seen it a lot in person and here on the forum. Somehow, a bunch of distributor parts missed the rust proofing treatment.
I bet MSD will fix it. And charge accordingly.
