Points Eliminator Kit - Pros? - Cons?
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From: I tend to be leery of any guy who doesn't own a chainsaw or a handgun.
I don't know what annoys me more here: How organized everything is, or how clean everything is.
Was testing a different spec coil for my '69 yesterday afternoon, and while kludging up some wiring between the Sun machine and the coil, I remembered your setup and told myself I need to take a weekend and get things organized a bit better than my current setup.
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Last edited by Big2Bird; Sep 20, 2020 at 09:18 PM.
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From: Long Island
I have one car with points, and the rest are points eliminator, or HELI. The Module in my 1980 truck's Heli has 480k miles on it and is 40 years old. Still functions perfectly. Original to the truck.
I have points in my 67,(NCRS) they last a while but need to be adjusted every so often, + the new points are not as good as the old ones.
My 72 (NCRS) has an eliminator that is over 15 years old and has never failed . It has a built in rev limiter which I set at 5k, it's a show car and has 24k original miles.
My 71 and 85 have HELI - my "daily drivers", the 71 is 5 years old - no issues. I have a 1975 HELI in the 85 after the MSD box failed. I replaced the module due to fear of the it failing, ( the DIssy sat on the shelf for a quite a few years) the new DELCO lasted 6 weeks, the original module is back in the car for 2 years.
I have all the equipment for setting the points, timing etc... from my old days. They still work great, but I have had to do some battery eliminating as some of the batteries are not radially available today.
I also picked up a new in the box sears engine analyzer from the 70's for $5 at a yard sale last summer.
I have points in my 67,(NCRS) they last a while but need to be adjusted every so often, + the new points are not as good as the old ones.
My 72 (NCRS) has an eliminator that is over 15 years old and has never failed . It has a built in rev limiter which I set at 5k, it's a show car and has 24k original miles.
My 71 and 85 have HELI - my "daily drivers", the 71 is 5 years old - no issues. I have a 1975 HELI in the 85 after the MSD box failed. I replaced the module due to fear of the it failing, ( the DIssy sat on the shelf for a quite a few years) the new DELCO lasted 6 weeks, the original module is back in the car for 2 years.
I have all the equipment for setting the points, timing etc... from my old days. They still work great, but I have had to do some battery eliminating as some of the batteries are not radially available today.
I also picked up a new in the box sears engine analyzer from the 70's for $5 at a yard sale last summer.
Last edited by BLUE1972; Sep 20, 2020 at 09:47 PM.
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That Accel unit in the original post appears to be the old Mallory Unilite system. I had one of those in a previous car. It failed after about 3 years. I also had a Pertronix unit in my '66 for about 20 years with no problems. (Although that car didn't see many miles.) I sold it about five years ago and last time I spoke to the new owner the Pertronix was still working fine.
