Latest Bonehead Move. No Damage. Dizzy is coming apart!!!!!!

[v80z]

Well I was prepping for a local event this past Friday. I had left the car out in the rain the night before. So after tightening the drive shaft and cv shaft bolts I went to fire it up. No fire hmmm. Wet? Went throught the usual checks. Pulled the dis cap off looking for moisture when what do I see? the pressed pin of one of the flyweights has become unpressed? Now I have run this mill to 6500 on 3 - 4 occassions. I never thought that this would happen.

 

I know I am running a cheap dizzy. It is a proform billet HEI. It was about $119.00. cheap I know You get what you pay for. So now I am faced with

"What distributor do I buy that can survive at 7000rpm and doesnt cost over $250.00"

 

Oh BTW. I ground the press pin as it had some damage and tapped it back in to place. I know it is a time bomb just waiting to happen. So I put the thing back together. Still no fire sounds like 1 cylinder fires per rotation.

 

Then I pull a plug attach the wire to it and set it so I can see it when I crank. Sure enough one spark every other rotation. Good clean CD spark. HMMMM.

 

What have I changed.......... The F^&*in rev limiter. I wanted to up it alittle

 

It has rotary dip switches. left is for the thousandths place and the right on for the hundreths place. You guessed it I did not know dyslexia was a sexually transmitted disease. I had set my rev limiter to 0700 instead of 7000 rpm.

 

What a bonehead!@! At least there was no damage.

 

Joe

[jbk240z]

LOL! that was a good one.

[Z48LT-1]

The only thing you left off was the smiley:

 

 

Ripping yarn, in any case.

[jnjdragracing]

I would search ebay for a used MSD billet dizzy. I have bought 2 from ebay in the past with no problems. I always try to get them with the slip coller so in the future I can adjust with diffirent deck heights.

 

John

 

Well I was prepping for a local event this past Friday. I had left the car out in the rain the night before. So after tightening the drive shaft and cv shaft bolts I went to fire it up. No fire hmmm. Wet? Went throught the usual checks. Pulled the dis cap off looking for moisture when what do I see? the pressed pin of one of the flyweights has become unpressed? Now I have run this mill to 6500 on 3 - 4 occassions. I never thought that this would happen.

 

I know I am running a cheap dizzy. It is a proform billet HEI. It was about $119.00. cheap I know You get what you pay for. So now I am faced with

"What distributor do I buy that can survive at 7000rpm and doesnt cost over $250.00"

 

Oh BTW. I ground the press pin as it had some damage and tapped it back in to place. I know it is a time bomb just waiting to happen. So I put the thing back together. Still no fire sounds like 1 cylinder fires per rotation.

 

Then I pull a plug attach the wire to it and set it so I can see it when I crank. Sure enough one spark every other rotation. Good clean CD spark. HMMMM.

 

What have I changed.......... The F^&*in rev limiter. I wanted to up it alittle

 

It has rotary dip switches. left is for the thousandths place and the right on for the hundreths place. You guessed it I did not know dyslexia was a sexually transmitted disease. I had set my rev limiter to 0700 instead of 7000 rpm.

 

What a bonehead!@! At least there was no damage.

 

Joe

[deja]

ROTFLMAO, sounds like something I would do. Glad you figured it out.

[grumpyvette]

if you say you don,t make mistakes on occasion it means your rarely DOING ANYTHING and even RARER, that your doing something NEW!

we all make those really dumb moves OCCASIONALLY.....

now I won,t admit it but some (GUY) once left the lights on in his corvette till the battery died, and it took easily 10 minutes to figure out why the car would not turn over the next morning....hell it ran fine when I parked it!....so your not alone

[deMideon]

I agree with JNJ... I got a used MSD billet dist and controller off e-bay. Works great and much cheaper!

[v80z]

Thanks Guys

 

 

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