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I have a 79 302 with the original Distributor, I have the oportunity to purchase a MSD 8582 Billiet for $50.00
Used about six months, looks good.
The original distributor has Vacume Advance the MSD does not.
The seller has extra springs and weights for the MSD.
Question is:
Am I going to have problems with a switch over?
No more Vacume advance is going to cause what?
How do I make the MSD wortk?

Originally posted by Craig
I have a 79 302 with the original Distributor, I have the oportunity to purchase a MSD 8582 Billiet for $50.00
Used about six months, looks good.
The original distributor has Vacume Advance the MSD does not.
The seller has extra springs and weights for the MSD.
Question is:
Am I going to have problems with a switch over?
No more Vacume advance is going to cause what?
How do I make the MSD wortk?

thats a good deal on the dist. craig but you will need a msd box to make it work (starting at 200.00 ) if it was mine and a daily driver i would wont a vac. adv. on it. its more of a race dist. the only timing youer going to have is base timing and total adv. those springs and weights are used to determine how quick your total timing comes in.

Thanks guys,
I do have a MSD 6ALN installed.
I messed up and put it on the kick panel inside the truck on the passenger side. That thing buzzes up a storm!

Gas mileage has gotten real important with gas in upstate SC at $1.90.
the mileage sucks right now anyway. I have a small cam in it and a 650 CFM Edlebrock carb. Aluminum intake and headers. I don't think the vacume is working up to par anyway. I have tested the diaphram and it is fuctional. Timing light shows it's working.
I can't put a whole bunch of timing into it, it starts to spark knock at around 12 degrees.
Timing is set now at 8 degrees, pulls hard, but the real kick is on the highway, the little 302 was bored 60 over due to 160,000 miles by me and my late Father in Law. I didn't do any thing other than a valve job on the heads. Do-Overs, I would have done some porting to open them up a bit.



It just looks GOOD and it's a $200.00 dizzy for $50.00.
If I loose a gallon a mile I figure I got 150 miles to use before the $150.00 difference is used up.

If I loose a gallon a mile I figure I got 150 miles to use before the $150.00 difference is used up.

I hope your car gets miles per gallon . . . not gallons per mile.

Actually, if your mileage dropped from 15 mpg to 14 mpg, you break even at 15,750 miles with $2.00 gas - not 150 miles.

Originally posted by Craig


Gas mileage has gotten real important with gas in upstate SC at $1.90.
the mileage sucks right now anyway.
It just looks GOOD and it's a $200.00 dizzy for $50.00.
If I loose a gallon a mile I figure I got 150 miles to use before the $150.00 difference is used up.

15Mpg is pretty bad. NY is at $2.11 for low end fuel. At this rate, the gas prices are going to take more of a persons paycheck than House Payments! Unless someone managed to make a engine that uses a fuel thats widely available for .20 a Gallon

My math is subject to much refinement!

I really hope this stuff back down

$50.00 a barrel is a bit srong.
If we are paying $2.00, wonder what it is in Europe?