Thread: Who knows his/her MSD?

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I'd like to put an MSD in my car (so that I can raise the redline and also so that I can tune the timing curve). My car has a Mercedes engine in it (to go with the Mercedes body), but it's fairly modified. It's running Bosch CIS injection with no electronic correction (well, I'm putting in a laptop programmable warm up regulator, which for those who don't know CIS is the normally vacuum powered device that regulates the control pressure for the fuel injection, but with my cams I need to replace that vacuum-based control with one I can program for each rpm on a dyno with a laptop).

The German engines have a different firing order from American engines, so I can't put an MSD distributor in. The current factory distributor is uses a magnetic pickup star wheel. I was figuring I could get the MSD 6AL-2 Programmable ignition box, and then lock out all of my current timing adjusters, and use that to tune. Getting rid of vacuum advance is simple enough, plug it up (right?), but what do I do to get rid of the mechanical advance?