Recommended distributor
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Recommended distributor
New member and also new corvette owner,recently bought a 74,needs some work but going to try to bring it back to life!!! Been having some issues getting the correct distributor.all the performance shops in my area keep getting me the standard small block 350 chev distributor however I know 62-74 has the cable drive for the tach,I’m in Canada and am thinking on going with the msd tach drive pro billit any thoughts???
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as cheap as $40 delivered to USA ... Tach Drive HEI ... of course they're Asian
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Chevy-V8-HE...frcectupt=true
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the above ad read tach drive but I don't see it
here's another that's under $50 delivered to USA ... no doubt also Asian
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1962-74-Cor...frcectupt=true
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Chevy-V8-HE...frcectupt=true
- edit -
the above ad read tach drive but I don't see it
here's another that's under $50 delivered to USA ... no doubt also Asian
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1962-74-Cor...frcectupt=true
Last edited by jackson; May 15, 2019 at 07:56 PM.
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The MSD is nice but you need the adjustable rotor to get it to clock correctly with the shielding. The tach drive isnt located in the same place as the GM distributor plus you'll need the 6AL contoller and HEI wires
If you want to stay with the small cap instead of the big cap HEI style, put a WTB add on our for sale section looking for a rebuilt GM tach drive.
If you want to stay with the small cap instead of the big cap HEI style, put a WTB add on our for sale section looking for a rebuilt GM tach drive.
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I'm running the MSD with 6AL. The MSD Billet can be wired to work with the GM HEI Module. If you want to go that route let me know (it's a way to see if you MSD box is having issues), you'll need to make some connectors. I've run the GM points, GM TI, MSD and Mallory Unilite (all tach drive), you just need to do creative wiring.
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