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Yep. The headlight bulbs themselves are LED. And they are insanely bright. They work very very well for night vision.

Not in the car. On the bench, as measured with a degree wheel. Setting is very fussy. LOL. Very touchy indeed. And yep. Totally understood. Total, minus initial, equals X. Divide X in half and measure out on degree wheel.

Currently. We have the elongated purple/blue spring that the distributor came with, combined with a heavy gold spring from the FBO kit. We’re going to start there and see where we end up. Total timing is set for 34°. Ironically, we are currently reading your article on tuning vacuum advance...

We would, but it got stretched out while we were pulling the distributor apart. We thought we were working with a stock replacement distributor, which it looks like from the top. But when we went to slide the reluctor off it pulled up on the entire shaft because this one with Malory internals...

Yeah. I guess that would be a side effect. I need to order the summit spring kit also. Nobody local has a spring kit with the long springs.

Yeah. No doubt. LOL. What didn’t help, was when we delve into this we thought we were working with an aftermarket stock replacement. So when we put the two screwdrivers underneath the reluctor to carefully and gently pry it up, we bent the living crap out of everything under there. LOL. We...

Never mind. LOL. The bottom advance plate came loose from the top plate. Therefore it wasn’t working correctly on the bench. It wasn’t stopping the amount of advance. We now have the bottom plate attached. We’re going to re-check the advance with the degree wheel in the morning.

Yep. I’m reading that tutorial right now. We put the degree wheel on top of ours and were able to move the rotor 29 distributor degrees. That doesn’t sound right to me. But, we want 14° of mechanical advance, so we would limit that down to 7° at the distributor. But is it right for us to get...

Here’s a picture of it all back together from the top. We have one factory spring from the Mallory/Mopar distributor. The other one is out of the FBO kit. We accidentally bent the spring mounting tabs pulling it apart. So we completely disassembled it and bent everything back to where it...

Summit makes a kit, but I’m going to start by replacing the bent spring with one of the FNO springs I have and see where it puts me. Advance was coming in pretty quick before.

Actually, looking at it closer, he didn’t bend the plate, he stretched the spring. Looks like we might be buying a spring kit. Lol. Mallory springs I’m assuming? I guess it beats bending a hard part.

Currently we’re running 20 degrees of initial timing. It’s a stock 1983 318 with a Holley street dominator intake, and Holley 390 vacuum sec carb. The cam is very similar to a 1968 4 speed 340 cam. 214/224, 444/466, 104 intake centerline. With the distributor as is, it has around 39-40...

Thank you. What is a YH advance mechanism? Is it a good distributor?

Well we didn’t do it on purpose. Lol. He did it by accident trying to pop the reluctor off like you do on a stock distributor. He’s going to work on flattening it back out tomorrow. As you can see from the picture, the spring is up at an angle a little bit.

Yeah. LOL. I think when he was disassembling it, Dad bent that plate up a little bit, not realizing how it went together. Like I said, we were shooting from the hip disassembling it because we had no idea what we were working with. Now that we do, we know we messed it up. LOL. Hopefully he can...

MP Distributor Tuning Tutorial Bingo. I’m pretty sure that’s what we have. And a tuning tutorial from one of our very own members.

Closest thing I could find on the Internet was this post from another board. It looks like what we may have here is a real deal, discontinued, Mopar performance distributor. My only concern is, it looks like one of the tabs that hold the springs might’ve been bent up. We might have to bend...

I sweet talked dad into pulling the distributor out and tearing it apart because I told him me and the rest of the guys on the a bodyboard just couldn’t wait any longer. LOL He obliged, and took plenty of pictures. I’ve never seen a Chrysler distributor like this. I have no idea what’s going on...

I will make sure to take plenty of pictures to document what we find on Sunday. That way everybody on the board will know for future reference.

That’s a definite possibility also, depending out this one is attached. I’m kind of interested to pull a part Sunday and see what makes it tick now. Lol

Dad looked it over when he took the cap Off for the above pictures. He didn’t see any numbers, but I will look on Sunday when we pull the distributor out of the car. The car came with some receipts, I’m pretty sure it came from jegs. I would guess it’s either a new car done or pro-form...

This is with the felt removed. I don’t know if it’s Pressed, or if there is a set screw in the side. The distributor came with the car when we bought it brand new in a box. I don’t know if it’s a pro-form, or what it is. But it works great. We just needed to limit the timing. We haven’t remove...

The first picture is of yet another factory distributor we found in A core motor we had in the back of the barn. As you can see it has the goofy factory clip. The next two pictures are of the remanufactured distributor currently in the car. I don’t see any retaining clip whatsoever? Or a...

Well, there might be hope for us then. The parts distributor we took apart with the factory Chrysler one from 1983. The one that is actually in the car is a new replacement of unknown origin that came with the car. I haven’t got that far into it yet, but now that I know this information we will...

Do the Dodge ram magnum engine use the same clip?

I’ll know more this afternoon, but I might have found an obscure location in the middle of nowhere that has some in stock. I will let you know what I find. Thank you very much sir

Looking for a handful of the wire clips that hold the “rotor holder”? Onto the shaft. Little wire clip, with the ends turned up. We’re getting ready to put an advance limiting plate and change the advance springs in the distributor and would like to get some spare clips, cause I lose clips...

They were pretty much plug and play and fit the factory buckets without modification.

When rewiring Jason’s car we installed these LED headlights, with angle eye halos. We also installed 2 relays along with them which took a lot of load off the entire electrical system. Making all the other lights work better as well. We wired the halos in with the parking lights so there wasn’t...

I’ve had to rebuild many of these old sockets over the years. I also usually add an external ground wire from the housing to the body as an insurance policy