The Pertronix system, that requires that a dual-point distributor's
breaker plate be installed
into the distributor (the breaker plate can be liberated from a funky
dualie and installed into
a good condition single-point distributor, if necessary)....allows the
distributor to be a
simple self-contained drop-in affair.
The spare points distributor, that we should carry for emergency
installation, is also a drop-
in protocol. A distributor-wrench and a screw driver, and simple
wiring-connection instructions
is about all that's necessary to ensure Happy Motoring.
As I mentioned, I was able to score the ONE dual-point distributor which
has 28 degrees of
mechanical advancement in it, which provides for the best over-all
performance (according to
Dave Honstad)---6-to-10 degrees of initial advancement, 28 degrees of
mechanical advancement
and 16 degrees of vacuum advancement = 50-to-54 degrees of total
advancement.
That dissie is the one for the 1955 Windsor Poly-4 bbl engine: IAZ 4001E.
The 1956 Windsor is a single-point dissie (needing a dual-point breaker
plate to be installed into it
from a donor-dualie) but it, too, has 28 degrees of mechanical
advancement in it : IBJ 4303A.
The Pertronix will make your car's ignition system maintenance free
(until it self-destructs, on some
busy freeway at night), but it will not improve the operational
performance of your distributor-system
all by itself.
Neil Vedder
email4lou@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I use a pertonix in my 66 galaxie but I have the mopar elec dist kit
in the 59 dodge ( you get the dist, wiring and orange ignition box in
the kit) . I've heard of the pertonix units failing, and its hard to
pick up a new one at a store if it fails while you are on a trip or
something, so I keep a points/condensor backup kit in a small box in
the trunk of the ford. If the dodge has an ignition sys issue, any
autozone has parts.
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-----Original message-----
*From: *Eastern Sierra Adjustment Svc <esierraadj@xxxxxxxxxxx>*
To: *L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx*
Sent: *Fri, Jan 28, 2011 19:45:57 GMT+00:00*
Subject: *Re: [FWDLK] Pertronix
Wonderful.....that's why I'm going to be carrying a spare
points-dissie with Horrie.
BTW, a Pertronix system will make the electrical system
maintenance free and will
provide (maybe-) a hotter spark than your present coil might be
providing, but it well
NOT increase a car's ignition/timing performance over whatever
your present distributor
is providing, in its initial, mechanical and vacuum advancements.
Dave Homstad has confirmed that the dual point 300 distributors
are woefully under-advanced
and are not good candidates for hot-rodding a car's performance.
Neil Vedder
RICHARD SKINNER wrote:
> I too have added Pertronix to my '59 but in the regular
distributor > (Pertronix factory conversion) as well as their
coil. No problem in > the past several years. > > Also of note, at
my local speed shop, the owner showed me some of the > returned
Pertronix parts that have seriously failed (melted) - turns > out
that recently Pertronix has had its parts made in China. These >
are the ones failing. FYI
> > Dick Skinner
> 1959 Plymouth Sport Suburban
>
>
>
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> *From:* Eastern Sierra Adjustment Svc
> *To:* L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Sent:* Fri, January 28, 2011 2:23:56 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [FWDLK] Restoration and Preservation.
>
> And, as an adjunct to all this great discussion--as long as it >
continues to be civil---which it has been, btw...
>
> Doesn't anyone else sort of feel sorry for the guy who buys a
freshly > "restored" auction car, KNOWING
> that that poor car, if it's ever driven, will probably not be
able to > get out of its own way, because we well
> understand what-all is involved in dialing-in our cars to
operate and > handle properly, and that a static
> restoration can not possibly address the myriad
(physically-messy) > issues that are involved in getting
> a car to be able to run-right?
>
> Also, I feel sorry for the car, too, because its rich owner will
never > be interested in driving it extensively
> or really bonding to it, other than as its being a trophy to his
wealth.
>
> We all modify our cars, to certain differing extents, because we
DO > drive them.
>
> I personally modify my car's performance, rather than to make
obvious > physical changes to him.
>
> Thanks to Dave Homstad's assistance, Horrie's newest gizmo will
be a > Pertronix electronic ignition
> system (which requires that a dual-point distributor to be used
for > its installation) which is installed
> in a 1955 Windsor Poly distributor---which is one of the VERY
few 50's > dissies that happens to have
> excellent mechanical advancements in it, for increased performance.
>
> Neil Vedder
>
>
>
> John Bartell wrote:
> > On 1/28/2011 12:14 PM, Adam Lindenbaum wrote:
> >> I thought the subject was going to be dropped but I have to
ask, do > you honestly think all it takes is a blow torch to
re-engineer a car > to make it perform better than the highly paid
factory engineers > could? Now can we drop this, I don't even know
what kind of car you > have but I respect it, it's yours, you love
it, respect other people.
> >> Adam Lindenbaum
> >>
> >>
> >> > >> Subject: [FWDLK] Restoration and Preservation.
> >> The FORWARD LOOK forum was founded and dedicated to the
correct > restoration and preservation of Forward Look cars.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "And, there's no greater feeling than to know you've done it >
right...even when you add the changes to make it your own!"
> >
> > John in WI...some more white stuff coming our way!
> >
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