 SOT Comparison Thread Compufire/MSD/Pertronix, For Type I sandrail |
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| stateofidleness |
  Jan 5 2008, 06:43 PM
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Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 810 Joined: 1-September 07 From: Canyon Lake, Texas! Member No.: 8,065 Region Association: None  |
My buddy has a sandrail he's rebuilding and said he wanted to get this Compufire distributorless ignition system:
http://www.compufire.com/vw-products-main.html I have not seen this ever mentioned here but assumed it was comparable to the MSD systems and the Pertronix What are the pros and cons of each? Do they all have a special application? General Thoughts? Meaningless thread input? *he has a '72 Type 1 engine if it matters 1.6L* |
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| stateofidleness |
Jan 6 2008, 01:17 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 810 Joined: 1-September 07 From: Canyon Lake, Texas! Member No.: 8,065 Region Association: None |
seriously.. no one? lol
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| banger |
Jan 6 2008, 01:39 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 354 Joined: 12-November 06 From: Santa Clarita Member No.: 7,205 Region Association: Southern California |
The compufire DIS-IX is exactly what you say, distributorless. This operates similar to a modern car with separate coil packs. The pertronix is a point replacement system, and the MSD is a capacitor discharge ignition. So it kind of like comparing apples to oranges to pears. The DIS-IX is probably the best way to go, since you wont ever need a distributor cap or rotor again. The only drawback to the DIS-IX is that is still runs off a distributor drive, which can have some jitter, which will show up in the timing, but other than that, its the better way to go.
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stateofidleness SOT Comparison Thread Compufire/MSD/Pertronix Jan 5 2008, 06:43 PM
Bartlett 914 What about the vacuum advance curve? It looks like... Jan 6 2008, 08:42 AM
banger The compufire is a retrofit for the 009, so it use... Jan 6 2008, 04:05 PM SLITS I have one .... never used it. Uses an 009 for tr... Jan 6 2008, 05:27 PM banger Slits, if you get tired of looking at it purty in... Jan 6 2008, 09:09 PM Porcharu The Pros are it's not an MSD POS and might act... Jan 7 2008, 02:11 AM Jake Raby Mallory. Period.
I have over 100K miles on the ca... Jan 7 2008, 10:09 AM Porcharu
I only promote the MSD to my competitors, when t... Jan 8 2008, 04:11 PM |
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