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Old Feb 20, 2012 | 09:19 PM
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No, not mine just another example of what cheap gets you.
Part inside look familiar? LOL
That was ALL that was inside there. Free typos too. Wow





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Old Feb 20, 2012 | 09:50 PM
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That is a Procomp, not an MSD box, right?
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looks like bout $300 for $20 worth of parts, makes you wonder what the other makers have in theirs?

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Not an MSD just a look alike knockoff.
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Old Feb 21, 2012 | 01:19 AM
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Well the Website on the tag doesn't appear to exist at least, just another thing to look at.
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http://store.procompelectronics.com/default.aspx. try this one , seems to be them. their site lists that box , with the module installed, and then the module by itself. Different decal on the face of their newer boxes though, searched three times , this is the only one that came up.

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The module inside that box has no energy storage capacitor which is necessary for a CDI (Capacitive Discharge Ignition). Such a capacitor has a voltage rating of ~500 volts and about 1uf and is physically a cylinder of about 1 inch diameter and 3 inches long.

The module inside this unit looks like an MSD HEI module. (I had one once, but it failed and I never replaced it with another. Instead, I went to an MSD-6 CDI system, which DOES have a large energy storage capacitor (~1.0 uf at ~500 volts).) The internals of the MSD-6 box look nothing like this.

If this is really what is inside a ProCompElectronics MSD-6 look-alike ignition, it is fraudulent because the label states CDI and it is NOT a capacitive discharge ignition!

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