MotorHead

I personally don't like to roll the dice, craps anyone ? In the middle of an intersection

midyearvette

71coupe454

I buy A-1 Cardone remans all the time for my shops but they dont have a tach drive available. The cheap ebay one is now down to $69.00, Damn I think just the price would make me nervous every time I started the car.. I think every thing I have had to buy to put this Vette back together has been "special" so far. I hope when I ever get to drive it the first time that its worth it all.

ratical12001

chances are that if i buy the more expensive one it is the same as the cheapies but marked up a lot higher?

airtime

another guy just replaced his old points dizzy with his mechanics suggested top of the line pro billet msd, external coil, msd box, the whole 9 yards. now his tach drive has quite working. i guess anything can break. i did not see a vac adv. on the ebay 69 dollar one. dragon fire shows one in the pic.

Ironcross

\
you dont get brsgging rights, but it works and your right on the cost........its a good deal and the more expensive crap is just that, more expensive and mounting problems with the coil.....

WhiteC3

I tried two cheapies summit and ebay and had oil pressure bounce about 10 psi variations with chaepies now I have rebuilt OEM Delco no more problems. The gears mesh tighter with oem and the oil pump tang is thicker. No a biggie but annoying.

71coupe454

its on there, the tach gear is on the driver side and advance is on the passenger side

bj1k

Check out the one made by Gearhead Enterprises, it has the tach drive and vacuum advance and looks very well made. They use a standard distributor and machine it to accept the tach drive . Just bought one for $89.00 on ebay . Will make a report when I install it in the spring. They could have put a $295. price tag on this distributor and most people would think it is better. Not always the case, so I'm willing to give it a try.

deanoshiro

We quit selling the ProComp brand when they switched to China 4 years ago. Currently the we buy they from the same factory that makes them for Accel and Mallory. All our HEI have a 7 year warranty.

http://www.hotrodsusa.com/store/ignition.html

FYI: I am the one that send my Vertex to Australia to have the mechanical tach drive copied back in 2002.

airtime

i ended up getting the hotrodusa hei. works good with no problems. since my motor has weak vacumm i had to remove the adj. vacumm advance and ordered one with the correct vacumm canister. now my new streetfire multi spark box was a different story. bad out of the box. but msd took care of me and fixed it even thro it was a month out of warranty and i did not have a reciept. there is a build date on the boxes so they could determine the build date for me. msd is a nice company that takes care of it's customers. hotrodusa seems to be a good company to. the timing curve on the hei was nice also.

Eliminater2

I had my tach converted to electronic and love it. I had it done at Corvetteinstrumentservice.com

woodlandcorvette

I have one and have not had any problems with it. I have read in the jeep forum that the gear is to hard and was taking out the cam gear. I now have to pull mine and at least look but have a 1000 miles on mine so dont expect to see anything. The other thing I didnt like was had to switch back to dino oil for break in 500 miles is what directions say. Other then that works good and looks good.