Just checked the number on an old distributor I have on the shelf. It's a
dual point with no provision for vacuum advance.
The number is C50F-12131-B
Would this be a HiPo unit?
Bob H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mountjoy" <dsmtjoy@cox.net>
To: "kevin beck" <kevinteresa.beck74@gmail.com>
Cc: "tiger list" <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Tigers Digest, Vol 3, Issue 266
> Kevin,
>
>>From your prefix, C5OF, you may have a HiPo distributor. You need to look
>>at
> the suffix to positively ID it. Attached are some charts that may help.
> Remember though, Tigers were not issued with HiPo motors and mechanical
> advance distributors. They all had vacuum advance systems. All MK I and
> MK
> Ia Tigers came originally with 260 CID motors and MK II Tigers with 289
> motors.
>
> Digging a little further, from Bob Mannel's book on the Mustang &Ford
> Small
> Block V8 1962 - 1969, Appendix D (attached) shows only one "C5OF"
> distributor,
> a C5OF-12127-E, and it's application is listed for the 289 HiPo motor in
> the
> Fairlane, Torino, Comet/Cyclone, and Mustang. So it appears you have a
> HiPo
> distributor. "Right" for your '65 MK I? That's up to you. Original?
> No. A
> very cool piece of hardware? Definitely.
>
> My MK I had a HiPo motor when I bought it way back when so I'm not sure
> what
> the correct/original distributor was. I'm sure there are others on the
> list
> who do.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Darrell
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