Summit distributors

[SpiderGearsMan]

and then you buy a coil and then you buy a module and then you buy a harness
hei is one wire off the ignition switch and works well

[Matt Cramer]

I am pretty sure they are Chinese but not Proform.

[milner351]

I don't worry about the electronics as much as the mechanical advance mechanisms / shafts / cam gear interface, etc. That's what flew apart in Seth's engine, and others.... I also had a friend recently whipe out a roller cam in a cleveland due to a mismatched timing gear that allowed too much cam end play.

With a mixture of parts suppliers - as most of our engines are - you just can't be too careful - measure everything!

[SpiderGearsMan]

don't fords have a cam plate ? or a cam button ?

[DanStokes]

My 5.8 and the 5.0 I took out both had a plate. I don't know if that's been forever on SBFs or if there was date before the plate. No clue on Cleveland motors.

Dan

[milner351]

Dan's (other Dan) issue was the mfr of the timing set sent him the wrong cam gear - it was a gear meant for a torrington bearing behind it ---- there was no torrington bearing in the box - as Dan had ordered the standard gear set - the cam gear was in the wrong box basically.

Dan put it together and didn't check the cam end play - which turned out to be over .030" - enough for the cam to walk into the distributor gear too far - and kill both gears, cam and dist.

Dan is getting a new roller cam, AND a new distributor gear.

Another expensive lesson learned.