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Old 01-17-2008, 03:33 PM
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Ignition Advance- Old Large Cap HEI

I'm to the point of needing to hook up my vac advance to the manifold somewhere and suddenly find myself asking "Is there even a ported vac source on a tpi system?"

Can I get my old vac advance plumbed in?

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Re: Ignition Advance- Old Large Cap HEI

No, there's no ported vacuum on TPI. Why would you want to run vacuum advance on a TPI system in the first place?
Old 01-18-2008, 10:02 AM
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Re: Ignition Advance- Old Large Cap HEI

I didn't give enough info. Sorry. I have an old 3/4 truck 4 bolt and a 92 vette tpi manifold set... Also, 4 months ago I bought one of those sexy eBay large capped mech/vac advance clear capped high output distributors. I was hoping to be able to use it without driving the ignition by the megasquirt.

I do have a small used computer controlled hei that I thought I'd install after running the engine fuel only MS2 for a while.
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Re: Ignition Advance- Old Large Cap HEI

The old distributor probably isn't going to be able to send the right signals to the megasquirt anyway.
Old 01-18-2008, 11:32 AM
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Re: Ignition Advance- Old Large Cap HEI

Yeah... May as well ditch the large clear cap for this setup.

I'm glad I didn't use the small capped hei as mallet while it was on the bench the last few months!

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