Okay here's the story... When I bought my car last summer it came with a MSD 8350 distributor new in the box. I had been having a problem with the car missing so I decided to install the MSD 6 weeks ago. My car has the Holly Avenger EFI for what it's worth. When I removed the original distributor I discoverd that the vacuum advance had sheared one of the mounting screws and I'm thinking that was my miss problem. Anyhow I proceeded with the install of the 8350 and no matter what I tried I could not get it to work. When it would start it seemed to be firing every other time and would not rev. Not knowing for sure if it was the distributor or the EFI I repaired the the sheared screw and reinstalled the original distributor. The car fired on the first attempt. BAD P.O.S. distributor. I sent it back to MSD and they "repaired" it. I asked what was wrong and they stated it had a bad module. Well today I reinstalled it and wouldn't you know it it does the same thing. so now I'm done!!!!
I have searched the forum for answers and recommednations and it looks like the Ford Duraspark 1 is the way to go. My question is will a MSD 8577 wire up to the Duraspark? I see in one of the earlier posts that Cowboy from Hell said that if it worked it would be a really good setup. Has anyone done it? Another think to note is I have equiped my car with all the Pantera Electronics circutry including the Ignition controller if it makes a difference on how I should wire the Duraspark. I think that since the P.E. Iginition controller removes the load from the ignition switch I could follow the wiring diagram from the earlier post but do away with the relay?
I plan on calling MSD Monday to tell them what I think of the 8350 and their repair. That is unless one of you brings me to my senses before then.
Steve
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