She started today YEE HAW 12V conversion

[tankwilson]

Well after a long winter and a few weekends of rewring the ol 49 she started today. I had a custom build fuse block built and pulled all my own wiring. I copied alot of what Blueskies did with the alternator, HEI, and oil filter. Thanks Pete. I have been reading alot on the HEI setup and was getting somewhat confused.

I set mine to TDC and is started right up. Runs a little rough but it runs. Need to fiddle with a little.

How many of you guys are running Langdon's Mini Mopar HEI & how do you have it timed or setup. Seems like alot of you are having trouble but i am sure there are some out there that dropped it in with no problems. I wanna hear from the guys that have theirs running good and what you did to make it that way.

Thanks

matt

[windsor8]

Thats cool, makes you feel good when you get something done and it works.

[martybose]

My 230 is bored out, has about 9 to 1 compression, has a mild cam, an Edmunds head and dual carb manifold, cast iron headers, a 60 amp 12V alternator, a pair of Langdon's Carter-Weber carbs and full flow oil filtration. My Langdon HEI currently is set up with 5 degrees initial timing, the centrifugal advance is locked by a tiewrap around the weights, and I have the vaccuum advance connected to straight manifold vaccuum. The plugs are Autolite platinums opened up to 0.060" gap. It starts easily, and drives nicely. Some day I may go back and experiment with the centrifugal advance, but I believe that the Cheeby advance curve is too fast, at least for my flathead.

Marty

[Don Coatney]

the Cheeby advance curve is too fast, at least for my flathead.

Marty

Marty;

On the stock Mopar distributors the vacuum advance curve is adjustable by adding/removing shims to adjust the spring rate. Cannot this also be done on the shiverlay distributor?

[martybose]

Marty;

On the stock Mopar distributors the vacuum advance curve is adjustable by adding/removing shims to adjust the spring rate. Cannot this also be done on the shiverlay distributor?

It's the centrifugal advance curve that I want to change, not the vaccuum. So far all of the centrifugal advance kits I've found are for speeding up the rate of advance, hardly what I need! I probably will figure out a way to space the counterweights farther out with the stock springs, which would both delay the start of the advance and limit the total amount achieved.

But to answer the question, there are aftermarket vaccuum cans for these distributors that can be adjusted with an allen wrench on a screw inside the vaccum hose connection.

Marty

[Don Coatney]

It's the centrifugal advance curve that I want to change, not the vaccuum. So far all of the centrifugal advance kits I've found are for speeding up the rate of advance, hardly what I need! I probably will figure out a way to space the counterweights farther out with the stock springs, which would both delay the start of the advance and limit the total amount achieved.

But to answer the question, there are aftermarket vaccuum cans for these distributors that can be adjusted with an allen wrench on a screw inside the vaccum hose connection.

Marty

James Douglas across the bay from you in the city has a distributor machine in his garage. I am sure he would be glad to work with you on setting up the curve you are looking for.