Accel Corrected HEI Cap
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Re: Accel Corrected HEI Cap
Cool looking car. Like the cap, I might try one. David Vizard spoke of it in a book of his I have.
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I really wish they made these for regular MSD distributors. They look so much cleaner.
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I'm going to chime in as the only guy in the world not loving the "corrected" cap.All I can think of is the poor bastard a couple of years down the road that puts a new cap and rotor on,and spends an hour trying to figure out why his car is running like junk.
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Re: Accel Corrected HEI Cap
you know thats what i thought about that 4-7 swap cams if you ever sold the car and someone tried wire it up as a regular small block they would have one awful time figuring it out , as most people would think to adjust timing and that kinda thing not realizing it's actually a wrong plug wire order
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Re: Accel Corrected HEI Cap
you know thats what i thought about that 4-7 swap cams if you ever sold the car and someone tried wire it up as a regular small block they would have one awful time figuring it out , as most people would think to adjust timing and that kinda thing not realizing it's actually a wrong plug wire order
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The only potential problem with those is the insulation breakdown in the cap. It happens to almost every 4.3L Chevy V-6 eventually, and almost every LT1 eventually. The insulation system is the SAME, and Accel has not learned to get it right on replacement caps for 4.3L V-6s to this day. That would be a point of concern eventually, so the next time you develop a miss don't think it isn't the cap because it only has 5,000 miles on it. There are hundreds of documented cases of high-end aftermarket caps doing this in 5-10K and Delco/Delphi caps solving the problem for another 100K miles.
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Re: Accel Corrected HEI Cap
I might have learned that the hard way. It started running rough and I wasn't sure if it was the ignition or my 650 DP. Runs even better now though with a new Summit carb, Digital-6 box, and MSD 8361 distributor.
Sucks I had to put the long spark plug wires back on though.
Sucks I had to put the long spark plug wires back on though.
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