[Tigers] Pertronix selection

[Tigerman]

I installed a Pertronix II and pertronix Flamethrower II coil (stock 
looking) on both my Mustang and my Tiger.
On the mustang, I also installed the pertronix wires (black, stock looking), 
but haven't had a chance to do the same on the tiger.

I believe that Pertonix also offers a whole distributor setup with a stock 
looking cap as well.  But I believe their distributor is non-adjustable as 
far as springs and vacuum advance goes, so you set the initial timing and 
you are done, nice and simple, but if you were a racer you would probably 
want more adjustment.

I like the pertronix set up for getting rid of the problems associated with 
points, but I also believe that if it were to ever fail, it will fail 
totally, so I keep a pair of old points in the vehicle, just incase, as I 
think I could install a set of points on the side of the road well enough to 
get home if needed.

The tach on my car with points installed, gave you a general idea of RPM, 
but didn't seem to accurate.  It was interesting to watch the needle moving, 
but I don't think it was accurate enough to be exceptionally useful as a 
tach.  With the pertronix II installed, the needle still moves, but it 
mostly hovers around 1500 rpm regardless of RPM, and doesn't move with 
relation to engine RPM.

I have a Alpine tach that I plan to covert someday to the designs available 
on the web and I hope that gives me a useful Tach again.

Thanks,
Steve


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Rollright at aol.com>
To: <tigers at Autox.Team.Net>
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 1:53 PM
Subject: [Tigers] Pertronix selection


> Hello,
>
> As some of you may remember, my "as made, 260" went south about a month 
> ago.
>
> I've gathered the Edelbrock F4B, the Holley 465, pretty much set on the
> Edelbrock 2122 Cam to warm up the performance a bit and still be "period". 
> Thanks
> to all that contributed.
>
> Now, to the Pertronix issue. There is a Pertronix  'Ignitor I' and and  an
> 'Ignitor II'. The II promises a bit more performance but I'd like to  know 
> if I
> will see any benefit with the mild upgrades I envision.
>
> And, will my stock tach work with either of them?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jim  Armstrong
> MK 1A 382002083
> LRXFE
> Rollright at aol.com
>
>
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