HEI stupid question
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Bring it over here, put a bad attitude SBC in it call it a 305, put a Holley Sniper on it, pass the goon squad test and be all good.
My old 46 tractor used to have points which I converted it to electronic ignition over a decade ago. A lot of the classic tractor guys complain that modern points come with really crappy Chinese condensers that frequently fail.
As far as I know deusenburgs had magnetos and cars as such .people used to push or roll cars off to get the generators or altonator to run the coils ..cars useing point type ignition systems other then magneto like delco Eclin Ford Motorcraft ,bosche, Mallory ect. the points do not use power they simply break the current ( 12v) this causes the magnetic charge to fold up( in the coil primary winding) at that millisecond"that drives the voltage up in the secondary winding and the spark is timed by the distributor cam breaking the breaker points a spark then proceeds to the rotar button which selectively positions its self near to a terminal inside the distributor cap..simular parts of both magnitoes and point type distributors are points & camber cam, and distributor caps and wires a coil of sorts, rotor buttons and wires the hei dustributor has the same except the ignition module chip works as breaker points by excitation process ( hall effect) ect ect can a magnito distribute ?certainly ...okay good night getting late...
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I want to add that Magentos can also be electronic instead of points like the Briggs and Stratton Magnetron ignition.
The EPA itself has recommended this to the states since the Obama administration. But California? Nooooo. Quite the opposite. Originally vehicles here went off smogcheck at age 30, but some idiots convinced the idiots to revoke that "sunset clause" in 2005, so it's forever.
In the early '80s California didn't want to do smogcheck at all, but the EPA forced them to. Now the EPA wants them to stop, but they refuse to stop.
Over the years the state has had study after study done, one after another with the same result -- "proved failure," to quote your RI experience -- but every time it's well, if you just make smogcheck more trouble and expense this will somehow make it worth the trouble and expense.
And so it goes, on and on.
(BTW, you are first to comment on my sig. 🤣 Yes, it would have been possible to fix so it would pass, but I was done nursing the Buick V6, and I couldn't find a swap that the state would certify that was worth the trouble and expense of doing.)
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But it makes sense. The basic model T (clunker) can't pass emissions, so as more of these cars flood the highway they will increase the amount of irrelevant oxide which has been determined by alphabet soup as a toxin. And it's found that it's atmospheric contribution of 3 metric tons a year comparatively is about .0000000023 of the total mass of the aggregate weight of atmosphere. Contributes to significant contamination.
It is only by continued high level of EPA driven enforcement by the state, that we will ever be able to free the masses from oppression and misinformation.
It is only by continued high level of EPA driven enforcement by the state, that we will ever be able to free the masses from oppression and misinformation.
Back when I had a point type system I found the blue streak points and caps were way better then ones from say rinks bargain city... yes they had to have a working capacitor or no working spark some people thought the condensors were for the radio static but no they had something they ( condensors) did to the coil saturation ( current) or some such ...
Capacitor works kind of like battery. It has the ability to keep "capacity" of some electrons and helps smooth out the signal when the points open. It also works as a filter that will pass through AC volts and static electricity. This helps keep this out of the radio so it doesn't get into the speakers and interfere with the music signal.
That's a simple explanation of course.
That's a simple explanation of course.
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