Need some advice for distributor

[jbeez]

So, I want to upgrade my distributor, for a couple of reasons. I have a dart iron eagle block, systemax intake, and my aeromotive rails hit the stock dist cap and im using a shitty upr cap adapt someone sold me used just to get my car going, I've put off spending any money but now I need to start researching what will work on my car. Anyone have experience with upgrading the distributor and possibly coil? I have nice taylor wires I'd like to keep that are pretty new and an msd digital 6 ignition which seems to be working fine. A little history though, I've gone through like 4 or 5 different ignition coils on this car. It's either the heat in the engine bay, or the vibration, or both consider it sits on a bracket attached to the engine, and my whole car rocks back and forth at idle.

So there is this long list of distributors I found here at summit with this search filtering,
http://tinyurl.com/8bj9tk

I have some questions, like wtf is electronic advance? And whats with the distributors that have what looks like a coil in the middle? I'd like one of those distributors that doesn't require changing the cap and rotor anymore, is precise, I don't need to change my timing at the distributor off of the stock 10 degrees. I need it to handle alot of heat and vibration, and also I need a good coil. I've blown through the stock coil, some msd stock replacments, msd blaster, im on a crane fireball right now not sure how long it will last or if its really strong enough up top when Im hitting like 14psi of boost @ 6500+rpms

any advice would be appreciated

Thanks,
-J

 

[LAFENATU]

I don't like to mess with Electrical too much, it is a pain in the ass.

Just a recommendation - take it with a grain of salt...I have had NO luck with MSD stuff. I am not a fan of it.

Mallory is an excellent company. You might want to contact them, I am sure they can set you up.

 

[Paul]

Something else is wrong if you're going through coils like that. I've never seen a stock coil fail. Ever. There are no moving parts in it - it's just basically a winding.

I bought the UPR small cap adapter you're using and it seems to be fine. Why don't you just keep it? Aftermarket distributors don't work any better than stock.

Paul.

 

[jbeez]

well, I'm not sure about stock vs aftermarket distributors at higher RPMs, also I hate UPR with a passion and I'd like to have nothing UPR On my car.

my other option is finding some behind bars racecars fuel rails and converting to them since they fit around the stock distributor.

I flat out have no experience with an aftermarket distributor vs stock, cant find alot of info on them, but I find a ton of parts, trying to figure out what they all mean, I mean, what kind of distributor is the stock one on our cars?

 

[ryclef331]

Something else is wrong if you're going through coils like that. I've never seen a stock coil fail. Ever. There are no moving parts in it - it's just basically a winding.

I bought the UPR small cap adapter you're using and it seems to be fine. Why don't you just keep it? Aftermarket distributors don't work any better than stock.

Paul.

AGREE 100%. The pick-up/ hall effect sensor in the base of a stock distributor is NO BETTER than what MSD or otherwise puts in their billet set up for a street car. I run an MSD Blaster 2 coil with zero issues. Mine is mount on the inner fender though so its off the motor...away from heat and vibes.