FBO's black HEI ignition box

Bewy said

RB,
Post #25, your bulls**t claim : 'Big plug gap doesn't make power'. Another bull s**t claim: the HEI adv mech is overrated.
Even you should be able to understand that a 045 gap is bigger than 030. Testing & reported in Graham Bell's book, 4 stroke Performance Tuning, on a stock HEI equipped 350 Chev 6-7 more hp at 3500-4000 rpm range with the larger plug gap.
A test on a 351W with HEI ign & 040 plug gaps made 601 hp @ 7000 & with CD ign & 060 plug gaps made 613 HP @ 7000.


GM dists, both points & HEI have about the most adjustable centri adv mechanism on the planet. There are a large number of different centre plates as well as weights that allow for a huge range of timing curves.

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Yep, read that. And you know what? In the real world on the dyno and on the track big gaps don’t do ****.

Simple as that.

As far as the garbage GM/HEI advance mechanism o stand by what I said. Billions of them were made, but that doesn’t make them the best.

The guys who claim they can tune one without pulling the distributor don’t have a clue what they are changing. To do it right, it needs to come out.

What can you do with that cheesy GM mechanism that you can’t do with something else?

Just silly.


EDIT: My claims are no more bullshit that the garbage you posted claiming big gaps makes power.

No one, and I mean NO ONE I know that I can verify they have tested plug gaps says a bigger gap is better.

Once again, explain how a magneto makes more power on a smaller gap.

Oh wait, it’s because even the most basic magneto puts out 3 amps. That’s THREE HUNDRED PERCENT more energy at the plug than ANY battery fired ignition.

Get into the real world.