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JeffS
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Yes, those are original parts. They don't work well with today's fuel, but that's how it was set up in '66. You would be better off if the "long" advacne weights were installed from a different Lucas distributor(E-type or TR6), and a different set of advance springs if you'r elooking to actually improve performance.
Bob_Spidell
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JeffS said:
Jeff,
Please elaborate. What kind and how much performance can be gained by tweaking springs and weights?
FWIW, I've had an Ignitor with solid copper wires in my BJ8 for many years with no ignition problems (except when I tried to run carbon-core suppression wires-no good with original Lucas cap). I do run Lucas (replica?) plug caps with 15 KOhm resistors and Champion NY12RC (resistor) plugs. RFI on my audio ignition analyzer--aka BMC AM radio--isn't bad (and my neighbors haven't tried to have me evicted, yet).
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Bob
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You can run carbon core wires with a TR6 distributor cap successfully, but not with the original style cap.
The amount of power you can gain depends on the quality of your orignal parts, but typically its a pretty decent gain in throttle response when you get it recurved. Its probably better left for folks here who have had the work done to comment. I'd guess a 0-60 time of 3 seconds better? Like lightening the flywheel, it should rev faster and smoother.
The Ignitor when used with solid core wires will rear its head when you run it on a chassis dyno where you can see the fuel mixture spike from missed sparks, but you may not feel it in your car in daily driving. It does have an effect, cumulative in the fact that it will eventually cause a failure.
The amount of power you can gain depends on the quality of your orignal parts, but typically its a pretty decent gain in throttle response when you get it recurved. Its probably better left for folks here who have had the work done to comment. I'd guess a 0-60 time of 3 seconds better? Like lightening the flywheel, it should rev faster and smoother.
The Ignitor when used with solid core wires will rear its head when you run it on a chassis dyno where you can see the fuel mixture spike from missed sparks, but you may not feel it in your car in daily driving. It does have an effect, cumulative in the fact that it will eventually cause a failure.
Bob_Spidell
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Thanks.