Hi,
I know a lot of you folk run electronic conversions on your race cars, but
I thought I'd thow this one out there for discussion.
I had a condensor failure on my street car yesterday, much to my dismay.
No harm, no foul - AAA-Plus came through for me.
The car is set up with a Mallory dual point distributor - no electronics.
Because this is not my first failed condensor with this setup, I thought
I might try to set the system up with two condensors and possibly a switch
to select one or the other condensor...
I have no idea if it would be practical to do this or whether I'd be
better off merely drilling the housing for a second condensor and just
swapping them by removing the wire from the insulated post each time...
If this makes no sense, please let me know so I can re-state the proposal.
Bottom line - what to folks with real points ignition systems do when they
have a condensor go bad.
Now - as to why the condensor fails? I have no idea. I'd like input on
that too. I have a funny feeling that I might have wired something wrong
initially when installing my electronic tach recently. But I suppose I
need to get to the bottom of the failin cond. It's a real pain to have
this part fail when you're entering a highway and trying to blend into the
idiots driving 70 in a 55 zone.
regards,
rml
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