Tony,
Good find in the shed ! Could that be considered a "barn find"?
About distributors, The SBF Cobras used the 260 and 289HP motors. The 260
cars (CSX 2000 - CSX 2075) came with a single point, vacuum advance
distributor whereas the 289 cars (CSX 2076 - CSX 2589) came with dual point,
centrifugal advance distributors. These were Ford's Autolite brand and had
a base part number of 12127.
BTW, the 427 Cobra's distributor was also an Autolite, dual point,
mechanical advance unit with the same base number.
The distributor for the 260 Cobras was C3OF-12127-G.*
The distributor for the 289 Cobras was C5AF-12127-F.*
The distributor for the 427 Cobras was C5AF-12127-E.*
*(This information from the Shelby American Registry.)
The attached charts (sorry listers) may be useful in providing additional
information and are from "Ford High performance Parts Identifier", Robert
Winkleman, published by Sunset Mustang. The attached pics are of CSX 2295.
They don't show the distributor too well but it is "buried" with hoses and
wires surrounding it so I wasn't able to get a clear pic.
The first generation Shelbys ('65 & '66) used the same Ford 289HP motor with
the same distributor as the cobras. I don't know about later Shelbys.
Sorry, this probably isn't the information you were hoping to hear. Have
you tried looking around the Mallory site to see what they have to say?
Darrell
----- Original Message -----
>
> From: Tony Somebody <achd73@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Tigers] help w/a Shelby part number
> To: "Beamclub" <tigers@autox.team.net>
> Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009, 2:55 PM
>
> Yesterday I was in the back yard storage building and happened upon the
> box my
> accel distributor came in. Feeling heavy I opened it to find the dist. the
> PO
> had installed in my Mk1. I then remembered I also purchased two others at
> Suni
> for the purpose of reselling them. All 3 are dual point Mallory
> distributors
> but one and Im not sure if it was my orginal or one I just bought, has a
> Shelby tag in place of the Mallory on the other 2 units. Now my mind goes
> to
> thinking that this has to be an orginal Shelby car SBF part. Which car is
> anyones guess but obviously made by Mallory for Mr.Shelby. Try as I might
> I
> couldnt match the numbers with any on the net BUT I also wasnt able to get
> the
> proper place to find out what the numbers would indicate. If anyone,
> perhaps a
> Cobra owner as I know we have a few amongest our group, can shed any light
> on
> what the distributor was used in, it would be greatly appreciated. Under
> Shelby on the tag is GF JA-B ( it appears
> to
> have a space between the F and the J) Under Mallory to the right is YL
> 5551-A2 I found a number that was close but was a FE number, which I
> think
> refers to a big block as opposed to the FE on our VIN tags standing for
> Ford
> Engine.
> Thannks in advance for anyone that might know how to find the car that
> this
> was used on.
> TonytheTiger
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