Frustrated ...

[Shaky]

Originally Posted by 72TealnWhite

Turns out.. whoever put it back together after the refurbishing... bi passed and made his own power cord to the distributor.. the original (which was the right one anyway) was sitting on my exhaust...

nate

Be aware - the original points ignition took 7 volts at the distributor. There was a resistor wire in the original wiring that knocked the 12 volts down to 7.

When installing an HEI, I always by-pass the original wiring and run a new wire straight from the fuse box to the distributor. The HEI requires 12 volts at the distributor. (I usually try not to run the wire on top of the exhaust though)

Someone let me know if I'm wrong about this...