hei distributor

No mine is electronic, with H-6 Crane CD ignition with a DEC 9500 Crane controller with a LX 92 Crane coil.

I thought MSD and Crane Cams where two seperate independant(sp) companies, one was founded in 1953 and is headquatered in Daytona beach and the other was founded in 1970 in new mexico

If you say Crane Cams and MSD are one in the same I must be looking at the wrong web pages.

And of course you are right because you always are.

All right, I am totally confused!

Are MSD & Crane the same or not? From what I have seen they do not appear to be the same.

SS-201, are you so miserable that you have to belittle others and play the 'my dog's bigger than yours' game with everyone. It's boring. Why don't you act like a distinguished septuagenarian instead of a bratty child? It seems you have some good information to share, but I am not sure that the cost of your tirades is worth it. You have promised to quit posting here for several reasons including the fact that you need no answers. Prove it.

MODERATOR; If I have crossed the line, so be it. Dump me. I for one am tired of reading this guys brags and slams.

You go yellowdog.

I'll quit egging him on. I just find it entertaining. He does have some good advice at times. Just wouldn't lock down the maechancal advance and distroy a good dist when all you need are new springs and weights.

I could, but I think other's see and feel the way I do. I just hope when I'm as old as you I'm not as cenial(sp)

I plan on keeping a spare module on board as back up for when I go down to Dale Hollow. I've got friends on my lake that will come out and tow me in if the module goes out, which I shouldn't have to worry about for a couple of years. The points style are real reliable I just don't like to adjust things that often. If you do come down to Syracuse I would do it during the week. On the week-ends with all the lakers and concrete sea walls around 3/4 of the lake it's a little rough on the classics. you need a deep-vee on the week-ends. Have you seen the new SV-211? went to indy's boat show last week and it's awsome looks like it would ride real nice on rough water.

Danman did you have any clearance issue with the intake or anything else? I'm assuming that Performance Distributors installed the gear for the rev. rot or did you have to do it? Was the wiring much of a hassle. I would think that you would have to splice them so that they would reach. Wish you would have posted this a little earlier I spent about the same money for a Mallory dist. and coil and this H.E.I. would have been a much cleaner install. I have to fab a bracket to mount the coil they spec'd and it would be a lot easier extending the pos and neg leads and not having to mount a coil on the intake.

79nautique - there is no clearance issue with
the intake at all - wiring is a breeze - 12 volts and a tach wire, no ballast resistor is required. It is a simple, clean install, and you cannot build a more powerfull ignition system for what I spent on the distributor($360)

tryan - the distributor is custom built for the 351W from performance distributors - the distributor turns counterclockwise (because of the gear on the end of the shaft - you can use the stock shaft, but I installed a ARP chrome moly shaft, and the oiling groove looks identical to the prestolite, actually to give you a better picture - the distributor looks the same from the base down to the very end of the gear. The weights are set up just dead oppisite as they would be for a chevrolet due to rotation of the shaft -they have me dialed in base on the specs I gave them of my boat - weight, compression, cam specs, max rpm, pump gas, and what I am doing with the boat - and they came up with 24 degrees of advance at 3000rpm. I told the folks up at performance distributors (dui) about our prestolite set-up with one light spring and one heavy spring, and they laughed like crazy. They said that is not accurate every time an engine is revved.

I used the neg lead from the old coil for now,
which judgeing by looking at the dash schematic, that should work...

I am trying to upload a picture I took today
of the distributor, and it won't upload

stop yelling. vince and richard at skidim.com will help you with your parts needs and engine advise.

awhite- the hei distributor is working great!
I am running the factory autolite 24 plug with
.055" gap, with a set of taylor spriro core wires. I have been playing around with base timing the last couple times out, I will let you know where I finally decide to leave it at. I think its doing great around 13-16 degrees btdc -