MSD E Curve Distributor

frosty_the_punk said
The e-curve is supposed to be a bit of a beastly unit. It's good to hear it's working for you.

It's not unusual for old harmonic balancers to become flexible where the rubber coupling joins the inside from the outside and this can cause the timing marks to become unreliable.

But if your balancer is in good condition and relatively new it probably shouldn't be a problem.

If you're setting the advance by checking for pinging, you have to give yourself head room for bad fuel/bad weather/sustained low RPM at WOT.

Yeah its a great design, although Im a lil concerned about the board frying. Evidently people have found that enough carbon dust can short it out. Makes me want to lather it in silicon. One thing I did notice, is the chevy style hold downs for the cap don't seat the cap all that tight. I can rock the cap back and forth. I'll probably just seal it with some dialectic grease.

The damper is a new.... I forget the brand now, Power something. I believe its the same damper summit reboxes and brands as their own. I remember asking my machinists when I droped off the block and rotating assembly to be machined and balanced if it was a good unit. He said itd be fine, he sees em all the time.

I'll probably back it out to 40. I don't need every last pony, after all its a 4x4 and does tow occasionally. Still curious if it'd benefit from an actual curve. Although when I was setting it up, instinct had me setting initial which I set at 22, and wasn't nearly as responsive as*it is now with 42. Id incorporate vac, but then I can't use start retard so my initial would be somewhere around 22 or less. So I think I might leave it at 40 and see what kind of mileage I get once I learn some self control.

Im just glad the pig runs again. It was quite the mind**** lol.