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Old Apr 21, 2008 | 01:04 AM
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Is anyone doing this? No distributor or rotor to wear out and shorter plug wires.
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Old Apr 21, 2008 | 01:16 AM
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Never seen any, & I've been around a day or two.

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Old Apr 21, 2008 | 02:31 AM
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Never heard of any pretty much everyone is going digital (including distributor) or regular pro billet.

Problems with the distributor less stuff is its harder to trouble shoot, if you are EFI and dont get a code and are having an ignition problem then you have a lot more posibiities.

With a distributor, if the wires look good, check the plugs, check the cap and rotor.
Plug not firing check the wire, cap and rotor, rocker arms.

Thats all I had to do when my number 5 was not firing. A LS buddy of mine had headaches tring to figure out what was wrong with his ignition.

In a 5 gallon bucket nexy to me, has my entire ignition system minus plugs and wires.

Selling all of it and going full digital........ and maybe a crank trigger.
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Old Apr 21, 2008 | 11:09 AM
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just tuned a 557" ford with that, it uses ls1 coils, crank trigger and a chopped up dist. for the cam timing all ran with an aem
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Old Apr 21, 2008 | 07:24 PM
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Is there an advantage to not having a distributor other than not having to replace the rotor every so often?
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Old Apr 21, 2008 | 10:44 PM
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Originally Posted by qboy
Is there an advantage to not having a distributor other than not having to replace the rotor every so often?
Depends who you ask on that honestly, each side has advangates and dis advantages....

Cap and rotors are cheap, I paid like $20 for my MSD cap and rotor........

A lot of the faster LS guys have a front mount distributor...........
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Old Apr 22, 2008 | 12:17 AM
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[QUOTE=JUICED96Z;9200632]Never heard of any pretty much everyone is going digital (including distributor) or regular pro billet.

What does "going digital" mean?
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Old Apr 22, 2008 | 01:17 AM
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Originally Posted by JUICED96Z
Never heard of any pretty much everyone is going digital (including distributor) or regular pro billet.

What does "going digital" mean?
Digital pro billet distributor, digital ignition box with built in spark retard.
Big money but worth it and faster then analog.
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Here is a link to a company that makes a distributorless ignition system for your BBC's & SBC's: http://www.electromotive-inc.com/products/xdi.html
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