Hi. As M.L. states, friday past my second electronic ignition was history (at last, this time was at morning on the garage and not in middle of the highway as the first time).
Saturday, I open the dizzy, and a fine black powder paste was over all interior parts...the plastic circlet (attached to the axis) was grinded by the border of the electronic module (to tall for a bosch 026 - B18A first flight distributor). Both parts of the electronic ignition goes to the trash.
After half day disarming, cleaning and rebuilding the dizzy (some rust in the outside and vaccum unit, and the creamy grease with plastic powder over the weights)now I return again to points and a blue bosch coil (from a red one with resistor, from 24KV to 12 KV spark). Of course, also return the pain of a unstable idle speed, etc, etc.
By pure luck, a locally guy offer a MSD 5 ignition amplifier (good for standard cars, no good for hotrods, his mistake) on a ebay like web site. I adquire it and set on my car (really easy stuff).
The bad part: my tachometer read 3Krpm for any rpm on 1-3K (but from 3 to 6 Krpm it work fine). The good part: mi engine roar with a lot of more power!, no black smoke at start, and the oil pressure going from 100 to 40 psi on only 30 seconds (before it takes 10 minutes). And the water temperature remain on 95-98 C after half hour on idle (no overhot!). The exhaust manifold are more hot, as the exhaust, but no means overheated.
I am afraid that in my previous setup the mixture in the cylinders don't spark on some cycles. What do you think?
Joaqin
PD.- I will post a photo of the setup next week (sorry, my wife borrow the digital camera).
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