Mallory Unilite and meqasquirt on a 83 turbo engine?

[Thumper]

I just bought a 260z with su's and a mallory unilite distributor. I love the distributor it fires perfectly has a built in adjustable advance curve, etc... My question is when I put my turbo engine in the car I will be running a meqasquirt ecu so would it be better to run the stock 83 dizzy or the unilite. For ease I would guess 83 dizzy since people have done it. But what about the most reliable performance? Thanks

 

Ted

[fl327]

I think its better to run zxt distributor.

If you run the unilight you wont have the same timing control as the zxt.

[evildky]

it would be pretty easy to wired up the unilite dist but depending on which one you have your gonna need to lock it down either the mechanical or vacume, remember were talking boost so you want timing to retard, advance makes things go boom, also keep in mind you have you pull the timing cover and swap the oil pump drive shaft to run a different dist as the optical dist uses a unique driveshaft, or you can run MS without the spark controll and hook your dist to a MSD box with boost retard