Re: [Amc-list] HEI distributor in AMCs

["Kelly Hardie" <ramblinguy.kelly@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'll second that. I worked for a large tuneup chain in the 70s and 80s, our
official policy was .060" max, regardless of the spec. Putting them at .080"
would fry caps, rotors, even coils. They would still fire with the rotor
contact and center button virtually gone, burning a hole right up into the
coil before the car would finally die...

Kelly

On a side note, it was fun to make a looooooong plug wire for an HEI, wait
for a cow orker to go to the restroom, and attach it to the distributor on
one end and the GM/HEI car on the other and fire it up. Hi jinx ensued!

On 4/16/07, Sandwich Maker <adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> " From: "Jay" <jciampi@xxxxxxxx>
> "
> " OK, I guess it is unanimous that the HEI should be OK to install in my
> car.
> " I wonder why caps and rotors are short lived, although the amount I
> drive
> " this car, it will take me awhile to put over 6k miles on it, so I won't
> " worry about it. I' will just stock a spare cap and rotor.
>
> it's the voltage.  you can improve cap/rotor life by gapping to .050"
> instead of .080" - secondary voltage will be reduced.
>
> i'd also suggest you get a recurving kit for the hei.  you can pick up
> a bunch of essentially free oats by tweaking the curve over the stock
> setting.
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