63Corvette

Hey Plasticman, which antique store did you find that Sun machine in? I haven't seen one in years

Frankie the Fink

The Pertronix III is in all my classics...it also has an internal rev limiter - which I learned to appreciate when my throttle linkage hung up in full open position against the ignition shielding on the '61 one day... Its a 15 minute swap in.

toddalin

Mine sits on the back of the passenger wheel well behind the battery. You can't really see it, but you do see the mounting bolts (painted black) up in the wheel well if you look for them.

MikeM

A set of standard duty points works pretty well for a rev limiter too.

Plasticman

A good friend bought it in the early 1980's, and said I would know how to use it.........so he gave it to me (along with a distributor to check).

Plasticman

Powershift

Although the high RPM cut-out point is a bit rough and erratic compared to an electronic rev limiter

Larry

MikeM

True but it does give you some wiggle room on time to react.

DZAUTO

I installed my first PerTronix 22yrs ago in the 56 with FI-----------------------it is still lighting fires.
Since then, I have installed about 50 in my cars, friends cars and in customers' cars. So far, ZERO problems.

Back then, PerTronix DID NOT have a coil, and they recommended using a heavy oil filled coil, so I used the MSD Blaster II. Later on, PerTronix introduced their Flamethrower coil, so I switched to the Flamethrower. The early Flamethrower coils were great, but after a few years, the PerTronix Flamethrower coils were defective. The top of their coils were splitting open and oil was puking out. So, I went back to the MSD Blaster II coils.

jerry gollnick

I have used petronix on my road race car. Just did winter maintenance check and two of the magnets fell out. Time to switch to a different design, I'll stay with electronic but need better trigger mechanism.

BB767

Hey 63Corvette, if you haven't seen one in years it's high time you did. In my shop you'll find...



...a very nice Sun 600. I had it completely updated with solid state components...



...eliminating all tubes, the vacuum pump was rebuilt etc.



Power supplies were installed to eliminate the odd, Sun proprietary 5.3 V batteries that use to power the VU meters. Now I can just plug it in to a wall outlet and I'm good to go. As Plasticman said "The Sun Machine tells the story. These old distributors do wear out.....

Thomas from the Restored 1930's Auto Shop

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=51567

mrg

IMO, P3 might be the ticket.

fastfreddie63

I posted the link for exactly what you are looking for in post #13.

Freddie

MiguelsC2

Good!

SI67

However, I HAVE seen this attitude daily over on the PRC Forum.

Larry[/QUOTE]


Peoples' Republic of China Forum?

Zoomin

Well, that was an expensive click.

Was pretty content with my points, but what the heck....

MiguelsC2

Go with Pertronix II or III

DZAUTO

Tom,
Your shop is an embarassment! It's WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY to neat, clean and organized. I had our house built with a 6car garage, which was WAAAAAAAAAAAAY more room than I needed! Now I'm getting ready to build another 6car garage next to the house (and bricked to match the house). SURELY that will be enough room!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Diablo427

Of course it will be enough room. And don't call me Shirley.

Zoomin

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

leif.anderson93

EXTREMELY nice shop...I'm very envious