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Reply to "Positioning of MSD distributor"

Thanks very much for all the interesting comments

My car has the MSD 8477 installed which is equipped with vacuum advance and it is stated that it is for the 351C.

Above it was mentioned that MSD 8577 fits without problems. From the pictures it seems that this distributor is shorter since it does not contain the vacuum advance installation. The difference in length could be a bit more than one inch which could make a big difference. I was told that for fuel economy I should stick with a vacuum advance (fuel price in France is now at about 8 US$/US gallon and increasing)

I have attached another photo. You can see that the screw of the distributor cap is just below the rail into which the engine cover slides into. The cap has a distance of a bit less than half an inch to the firewall (hope that is enough to cope for engine movement).

I tried to find a distributor cap that fits on the MSD 8477 and is shorter, but there seems to be none... 

Thanks again for your comments

Brgds

SIG

 

 

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