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Looking to do a tune up and wanted to know if the all mighty company msd is still supplying the market with bad parts? I've heard, not experienced, repeat heard, about all the dying coils and poorly crimped wires and distributors going bad out of nowhere. Just want to know where to spend my money wisely.

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Go OEM. MSD=Junk.

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quote:
Originally posted by *Als50*:
Go OEM. MSD=Junk.

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Depends on or budget are looking for high end race parts or stock replacement part's
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Depends on or budget are looking for high end race parts or stock replacement part's

Stock replacement mostly

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Then oem is the way of the walk.
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First my 6al went bad then the dist. left me stranded. Oem distributor and ignition system since.

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Ok so where is the best place to find a good factory replacement dizzy? I've had a gear pin shear off on my 79 and that was an oreilly dizzy. Don't really want to deal with that again

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quote:
Originally posted by LXjames:
Ok so where is the best place to find a good factory replacement dizzy? I've had a gear pin shear off on my 79 and that was an oreilly dizzy. Don't really want to deal with that again

That's because of the cam. If it's a stock cam it won't mess up your distributor gear again. I use oem distributor with MSD cap and rotor, never had problems.

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Originally posted by LXjames:
Ok so where is the best place to find a good factory replacement dizzy? I've had a gear pin shear off on my 79 and that was an oreilly dizzy. Don't really want to deal with that again

That's because of the cam. If it's a stock cam it won't mess up your distributor gear again. I use oem distributor with MSD cap and rotor, never had problems.
That doesn't answer the question

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What brand was the O'Reilly's dizzy? I heard the Rich Porter brand dizzy you can get at O'Reilly's is a pretty good replacement dizzy for the stock one.
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I had a Msd distributor for 5 years until it went out. It was on a daily driven car too. The coils suck, those only lasted me 1 or so. Try to find a stock distributor. I bought a screaming demon coil from 50 resto and it's bent holding well for a year now.
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