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Post by CustomMerk on Mar 14, 2005 18:54:22 GMT -5
Well I ordered the carb, intake, and some ignition stuff. The cam and n20 will have to wait till the merc is relieved of its daily driver duties. Anything is better than the worn out 2bbl and lame 289 intake.
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Post by STU on Mar 14, 2005 19:45:09 GMT -5
What brands/model's did you order?...we need details. ;D
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Post by CustomMerk on Mar 14, 2005 20:52:30 GMT -5
I got the Weiand "action+" intake, edelbrock #1405 carb, and a few things to round out the ignition. After seeing the weiand intake, I thought it looked like something that would be good for a stock-ish motor as well as a more built mill. I have had good luck with eddy carbs, so that was an easy choice. I am just going to run the old points dist, I already added an ignitor unit, I ordered an HEI style adapt-cap ( I hate the socket type connectors). I had to get a new vac. advance canister because the current one is a POS, and it doesnt give me the advance i want and it cant clear a bracket enough to run more initial timing. The car deserves this and more, I almost feel bad having it on the road everyday.
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Post by STU on Mar 14, 2005 21:07:00 GMT -5
Why not pull the dizzy and re-stab it so it will clear?....Putting the duraspark-II electronic ignition system in my Merc was one of the best swaps yet, and cheap too. I have an accel super stock coil with an old MSD-5 box too. I have the Action+ intake on my roller 5.0, I really like it as the engines pulls strong to 6000rpm. I've got a 1" phenolic open spacer on top of it with a 600 Holley on top. ;D I bought a new Weiand Stealth for a 351W for my race car project.
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Post by CustomMerk on Mar 14, 2005 21:22:29 GMT -5
Why not pull the dizzy and re-stab it so it will clear?....Putting the duraspark-II electronic ignition system in my Merc was one of the best swaps yet, and cheap too. I have an accel super stock coil with an old MSD-5 box too. I I thought about reinstalling the dizzy differently, but the current can on the sucker is strange and has about 3 adapters on it and uses a larger vacuum hose than the eddy does. I forgot to say that I ordered a hotter coil as well, I want to run a wider plug gap.I was thinking .040" but maybe ".045? I dont know what these older systems can do.
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Post by ca on Mar 15, 2005 1:22:41 GMT -5
shouldnt have any problems with 45thousanths with electronic and a good coil. i used the dura II on the 221 and gapped there.
why cant you just change out the canister with just the single vacuum pull
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Post by CustomMerk on Mar 15, 2005 1:46:59 GMT -5
pardon my ignorance, but what is the duraspark II system? Is it still made? CA, im not sure what you mean but Im not running any vac. tees for the advance, I just have a cobbled together canister. Plus I would really like to dial in some more vacuum advance. After putting the motor on a good timing light I saw that I really wasnt getting a as much part throttle lead as I could. If you look at the last pic, you can kinda see how it looks. 6263meteor.proboards18.com/index.cgi?board=pics&action=display&thread=1106110029
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Post by ca on Mar 15, 2005 2:15:09 GMT -5
there is no such thing as ignorance if you're lookin for information ;D in fact its quite the opposite ;D
the duraspark two is the ignition ford used from about the mid seventies to mid eighties,before feedback "feedback"controls like tying the ignition into the carb/injection system. all you need is the distrbutor and ignition box, then wire it in. its so easy even i did it ;D even to my German Capri. a very good system in case you ever have any probs with the Pertronix Igniter system.
when you say "can" i'm ASSuming your talkin about the vacuum advance canister and you said it had three adapters on it. i was saying to just change the vacuum canister to an advance only type and lose the advance/retard unit if thats the one you have. you can change the vacuum advance on the distributor by the allen head screw in the canister itself(lets see how many of you guys out there know that one). i learned that from the boys over at Galpin Ford in '79 on my lil turbo Mustang
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Post by STU on Mar 15, 2005 6:31:40 GMT -5
Is the cam in your 302 a roller or flat tappet? That's the only thing you need to watch out for on a duraspark-II swap. The roller cams are steel while the flat tappet cams are cast iron so you need a dizzy gear of the same metal to match each cam. If you put a cast iron cam in with a roller (steel) gear dizzy, the gear will tear up the cam in short order.
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Post by CustomMerk on Mar 15, 2005 20:52:48 GMT -5
Ok, I see Ive seen duraspark system on my Dad's F250, Speaking of which i gotta figure out whats going on with my truck. It has a old points dizzy, coil, and some ignition box on the firewall. Well it works fine for now. It makes me appreciate the HEI, give it 12V, a nice coil and some springs ands its a hipo ignition! STU, its a flat tappet (boo), Im going to be stabbing the old dizzy back in so im not worried about gear problems.
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