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 wiseoldub
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| posted on November 24th, 2010 at 01:11 PM |
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Mallory twin points dizzy?
I picked up a big block recently and it came with a twin points Mallory Distributer! Looks great, but I have no experience with these fellas. Anyone
on here have anything to say about them?
cheers, josh
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| posted on November 24th, 2010 at 03:31 PM |
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ive got to say ive only heard bad things about the recent mallorys. it was something about quality control
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| posted on November 24th, 2010 at 04:30 PM |
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Hi
They weren't too bad in the old days but they did have some issues.
They had adjustable advance, that could move and causing over advancing
The twin pints can be hard to set up correctly, we use to do it in a dizzy graph
The parts can be hard to source, not good if your out in the country.
Steve
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| posted on November 24th, 2010 at 04:35 PM |
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My brother ran one in his circuit ski race boat. It was a complete pain in the &rse.
Put something sensible like an MSD dizzie on it Josh.
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| posted on November 24th, 2010 at 06:00 PM |
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it needs to go in the large re cycle bin in the corner
yep parts are impossible to find
better off with a new 009
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| posted on November 24th, 2010 at 08:32 PM |
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not to bad , just set the points like in the old datsun 200b no big deal.
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| posted on November 24th, 2010 at 09:07 PM |
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Yep, nothin good to say,Ran a Accel one on a 351 for a while. Points started to get way expensive and tuning took twice as long. Ebay it and let
someone else worry about it.
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| posted on November 25th, 2010 at 11:54 AM |
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thanks guys, you rock!
will shelf it
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| posted on November 26th, 2010 at 07:15 PM |
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Totally disagree, I have been running two twin point dist's now for years one draging my little 1776 to a best of 14.01 and the other on a 1600
street car . you can set the max advance and the best of all they don't burn points. The points rotor and condensor are easy to get and they are
stocked here in australia.
If you don't want this dist PM me with a price
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| posted on November 27th, 2010 at 11:54 AM |
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Yep what he said.
Ive been using one on my vee engine for years. NEVER has the advance adjust moved. Most serious thing to ever happen was one of the point contacts
dropped off. Never mind, it just keeps running on the other set!
Twin points are a cinch to set up and parts are easy to source.
You can use feeler guages easily as the points are set very wide at .020" or so or you just use a dwell meter and place some thin cardboard inbetween
one set of points and adjust the other and vice versa.
Nice thing with mallory accell and so-on brands which use the same dizzie castings is that most parts are common across the vast majprity of 4
cylinder dizzies. Same goes for 6 and 8 cylinder jobbies.
Echlin still make the points sets as well as genuine mallory but genuine stuff is a bit exxie.
Condensers are generic.
Use it. Youll never regret it! Ill put second dibs on it after frosty if you decide to unload it!!!
L8r
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Im not a complete idiot, quite a few parts are missing....
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| posted on November 29th, 2010 at 01:23 PM |
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I was talking with some ol skool race guys over the weekend that used to run them on hill climb vehicles! they loved em, but I think I might just
settle for the 'ol 009. I will sell this for what one of the guys said it was worth
$100. In good cond!
can send if needed!
cheers
josh
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