clarification :MSD

["Owen" <renarac@domain.elided>]

The standard MSD doesn't help too much *IF* you have a $60 Pertronics unit.


----- Original Message -----
From: Owen <renarac@domain.elided>
To: John A. Landry <jlandry@domain.elided>; John Fleck <jlfleck@domain.elided>
Cc: <ihc-digest@domain.elided>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: Suggestion for tailgater haters and MSD


> I've got to disagree, Landry. I have the MSD 6AL and it's rev-limiting
> features are a lifesaver on my motor when I'm punching the throttle and
> hightailing it through mud, over hills and down washboards in 4-low and in
> 1st.
>
> If I get too excited and over-rev, it graciously shuts off cylinders and
> drops power untill the RPM is low enough.
>
> Especially handy when you'd going over really bumpy stuff at high RPM and
> yout foot is dancing around on the pedal.
>
> The benifit of the MSD rev-limiter built into the 6AL is that it cuts of
> random cylinders. First 1, then 2, 3,ect. until the revs are down. Most
cut
> off one cylinder or cut the coil wire (whch can cause some nasty backfires
> if it switches the coil wire back on half way through the discharge
period.)
>
> So buying the MSD with all the bells and whistles is worth it. A basic MSD
> 6A is just for kicks unless you're running a race car.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John A. Landry <jlandry@domain.elided>
> To: John Fleck <jlfleck@domain.elided>
> Cc: <ihc-digest@domain.elided>
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 3:18 PM
> Subject: Re: Suggestion for tailgater haters and MSD
>
>
> > The aliens commander decided John Fleck <jlfleck@domain.elided> would
make
> a
> > perfect specimen for dissection, and he yelled...
> >
> > >I mean can 90% of the 300 or so drag racers that
> > >came to the track I was a member of (Bremerton Handlers Racing
> Association
> > >in Gorst WA) be wrong????
> >
> > Oh I get it...
> >
> > Then we need nitromethane, roots blowers and open header pipes on our
> daily
> > drivers too because 100's of funny car drivers can't be wrong... right?
> >
> > I respectfully disagree with you John.  You don't need a $200.00+
ignition
> > system to get an otherwise *properly* functioning stock IH engine to run
> > perfectly.  But yes... if someone feels the need to spend some money to
> > cover up other neglected maintenance items, then an expensive ignition
> > system is a perfect place for them to start loosing cash.  This is
America
> > after all and that's the beauty of stupid consumers... they help the
> > economy by buying stuff they don't need.  It's the same mentality that
> > keeps those oil additive manufacturers in business even though countless
> > studies have proven them unnecessary to outright useless.  Sooner or
later
> > (probably sooner) they'll be back to spend more money on the other items
> > that needed fixing in the first place... but those needed repairs
weren't
> > quite as attractive as a shiny new MSD computer and pretty spark plug
> > wires.
> >
> > I'll stick by my position that a setup with say a Pertronix Ignitor,
> > something like a set of cheap 8mm Autolite spark plug wires, platinum
> plugs
> > (brand of your choice) and an Accel super *stock* coil (or brand of your
> > choice) will give just as good performance and fuel economy as a Jacob's
> or
> > MSD system with all the expensive bells and whistles.  That's on an
engine
> > in otherwise top mechanical condition.  If you have some neglected nasty
> > oil burner that fouls the plugs every 1/2 mile, then *possibly*
something
> > like the MSD might help keep the plugs cleaner because you can open the
> gap
> > farther and run the plugs hotter.  But again, it's a band aid and you're
> > still going to have to fix the engine at some point.
> >
> > 95% of the people installing aftermarket ignition systems replace just
> > about every component (plug, wires, ignition module, rotor, cap, etc.)
> when
> > they perform the upgrade.  They're blown away by the performance
increase
> > when they could have gotten the same effect by replacing everything with
> > quality auto part store fare and doing a tune-up in the first place.
It's
> > the $350.00 they just spent at Jacob's that finally gets them off their
> > butt to tune-up their engine.
> >
> > I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the aftermarket ignition
> > systems... just that more value for the money can be had elsewhere...
like
> > purchasing some basic diagnostic equipment and doing regular tune-ups,
> etc.
> >
> > Just MHO,
> >
> > John L.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > jlandry AT halcyon DOT com      |
> > Conservative Libertarian        |  "The road to  tyranny, we must never
> > Life Member of the NRA          |   forget, begins with the destruction
> > WA Arms Collectors              |   of the truth."
> > Commercial Helicopter - Inst.   |                     William J. Clinton
> > http://www.halcyon.com/jlandry/ |    10-15-95, speech at the Univ. of CT
> >
>
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