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> points replacement options, a whole bunch of questions actually
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post Oct 24 2004, 09:19 AM
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This is all for an early 911 motor with and ancient 1967- 2 piece points distributor.
I was intending to run a pertronix ignitor points replacemnt in it, but found out last night that it doesn't fit.....

so now I'm re-educating and re-shopping...

I run a crane in a different car and see that they do make a model to fit this dinasaur....
but my first question:

-Does an inline resistor prior to a coil, ultimately hurt the strength of the spark put out from the coil?

next question: I'm running an MSD box and their blaster coil, but want to replace the points...
-Does MSD make a points replacement now?

anybody know what other racers are using to replace points... specifically other racers with these ancient/small 2.0/6 vintage motors?

tia
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post Oct 24 2004, 09:35 AM
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Check with Summit racing.....Crane optical units that repalce the points will work with most CDI boxes. BTW....you MAY need a tach adapter for the stock P-car tach. I went with an aftermarket tach on Frank and it workied withOUT the adapater.
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I run a Crane Allison XR 700on my '65 911, and like it alot. I don't use a conventional Pcar CDI, just the Crane box, and have no more plug fouling problems ... Price is right. The Cap'n
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brant,

i'm been running the crane xr 700 on the '67 2.0 in my 914 for about 2 years now with no problems with it. i'm useing the stock cdi to trigger the crane box and i didn't need a tach adapter.

if you use the right shutter wheel, you don't need to remove the points mounting post .......... like i did. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)
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post Oct 25 2004, 09:02 AM
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thanks fellas...

I'm fairly ignorant, but in theory what do you guys know about the thought I had regarding the resistor..(yes really a different question)

looks like I'll probably go with the crane agian then.

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Ran the Crane Allison on the race cars without a resistor and came up with two problems:

1. The spark was so "hot" it disintegerated the cap center electrode, but the spark would still jump from the cap to the rotor (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

2. The spark was so brilliant, it would trigger the LED (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smoke.gif) or was it the spark jumping around inside causing the misfire?

Yea, I put the resistor in line to drop the voltage to the coil to 9V. No problems after that and no fouled plugs.
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ohh...

good input, I hadn't even considered the too much power idea..

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