quote:Originally posted by Aus Ford:
It is interesting to see that two of the recommended coils for the Pantera-Electronics Ignition are MSD coils.
I'd love to know what is inside the Pantera-Electronics Ignition box to drive the coil.
There are actually two chassis sizes of the case for the P-E Ignition.
The one you see pictures of is built to the exact external dimensions of the MSD box.
Jon is color blind. He doesn't care what color coil gets used but I would suspect that the presence of the MSD coils are part of the thinking? In other words you don't need to change out the coil too, even if it's an MSD, to use his P-E brain?
I actually have the original shape of the P-E case. I find the look more appetizing than anything that even appears similar to MSD products.
Incidentally his original concept for the unit was to make it compact enough to use in other vehicles such as Cobra kit or continuation cars and even has a coiled snake decal to put on it in that case although he doesn't even hint at that anywhere.
He never said anything about Corvettes though.
I'm using the Crane unit. I don't see it now in the instructions but MSD was never a consideration to me. Mallory is there now also.
Lots of people snicker at the P-E unit and say it is just a CD unit. Jon just laughs at that.
There's no NEED to switch over to his parts if yours are still working. Many people are using the Motorcraft pointless distributor and brain which is a fine and dependable unit. Others the MSD system. To be fair, Mallory and Accell as well. Many still running the stock points distributor. If they work LEAVE THEM ALONE. It is nice to know that there is an alternative to them though, AND made JUST for the Pantera.
In my case I needed to simplify the tach situation. The Detomaso tach is not a Ford designed unit and it does not work like one.
Any time you change the Pantera wiring to it involves a hassle to get it to work right.
The P-E unit simplified that for me. It just plugs in to the original wiring and I could go about the rest of my life without worrying how I was going to try to get the tach to work today?