Re: [Amc-list] Will this distributor work?

[Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hell, I don't know which one it was on, but somewhere one of the hei pages said something to the effect you could use a tfi module with a points dist.

   I'd like to know what is involved, can't look now.
On vacation in Orlando and my wife will plum near kill me if I start surfing for car stuff....

Mark Price
Morgantown, WV 26508
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
"I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens!"

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Fulton" <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "AMC/Rambler owners, drivers and fans." <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 9:35:56 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [Amc-list] Will this distributor work?


Did you say junkyard?  I'm interested.  Ha.   

How would you wire a points distributor into a TFI module?   Anyone?  Bueller?

Joe Fulton


--- On Tue, 3/31/09, Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Amc-list] Will this distributor work?
> To: tomic@xxxxxxx, "AMC/Rambler owners, drivers and fans." <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 5:57 PM
> One thing I noticed for the RM crowd while reading up on the
> HEI module to Duraspark dist info.
> One of them mentioned you could drive a TFI module with a
> points dist!  Now, If it is true that makes it way similar
> to the first series of MSD type boxes and you will have
> points that last a very long time!  The only wear is the
> mechanical wear as the voltage, or is it amperage? drops to
> almost zip. 
> 
> Don't do this without a little research to make sure
> you get the right module, but if yer a true RM kind of guy
> this is the cheapest way to upgrade the dist/ign in a 196!
> Junkyard parts would be all that are required.
> 
> YMMV.
> 
> Mark Price
> Morgantown, WV 26508
> 1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
> 2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
> "I realize that death is inevitable.
> I just don't want to be around when it happens!"
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tom jennings" <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> To: martin-davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "AMC/Rambler owners,
> drivers and fans." <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 1:13:30 PM GMT -05:00
> US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [Amc-list] Will this distributor work?
> 
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Davis Martin
> <martin-davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 
> 
> > I have a friend that has a ramabler wagon that has the
> 193 or 196 inline 6
> > motor. I have a GM inline 6 HEI distributor that he is
> wanting but will it
> > work on his old style 6 cylinder? I thought the blocks
> were all the same
> > just a little bit different bore and stroke. Any help
> is greatly
> > appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> It's an old Delco-Remy for the OHV motor, and
> there's no alternative, just
> the one part. The inliner crowd has the same problem.
> 
> Definitely the way to go is Pertronix, and for the
> adventurous, you can
> extract another 10 degrees of mechanical advance from it.
> I've done both in
> my motor. Ignition timing is so insanely conservative
> there's a lot of low
> hanging fruit to be plucked here.
> 
> 
> http://wps.com/AMC/1963-Rambler-American/Distributor/
> 
> Note that the flathead and OHV motors use different
> distributors and the
> Pertronix part number above is for OHV.
> 
> More American stuff at
> 
> http://wps.com/AMC/1963-Rambler-American/
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> All your arguments are invalid.
> Enjoy your unstable system.
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