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St. Jude Donor '11, '16-'17
Sorry I missed this post. I still haven't driven the car far. I finally took it out for the first time this spring the other day and the heater core started leaking. I feel the distributer is a very high quality unit. I like the fact that you have several different advance curves available by just changing a switch on the outside of the distributer. You can change both the mechanical advance and vacuum advance separately, so there are lots of combinations you can try. It's definitely a slick setup. The only difficulty I had during the installation was getting pure 12volts to the distributer. In '69 Ford used a resistor wire to the coil. I ended up running a relay with the resistor wire and grabbing 12volts directly from the battery.
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St. Jude Donor '11, '16-'17
Yes, you can lock out both advance mechanisms. This link will show you the selectable curves. It looks like it varies from 20-26 degrees of mechanical advance.
