Posted by Chris on January 03, 1999 at 11:28:13:
A while back there was a series of posts on this subject.
What was the outcome? Did anyone find the way to change
the gear-drive slant six distributor to a tang drive?
I think this idea has a lot of merit because the Mopar
electronic ignitions are simple, reliable, and
they're Dodge. I had some other ideas...
Mopar performance sells a kit with a HP ECU, wiring and
a recurved HD distributor for "racing". The recurving is
achieved with lighter springs on the centrifugal adavance
mechanism. It reaches full advance at 2000rpm. There
are two springs, one lite and one heavy, that work
together progressively. What would one want in the way
of an advance curve on a Power Wagon?
OK, here's one.....
Some of the later Slant Sixes used two pick-up coils.
One for starting, then switched to the other for running.
The air gap between the start pick-up and the "reluctor"
was closer than on the run pick-up, I guess for longer
dwell. These pickups were positioned 180 degrees from
each other and are both "working" all the time, but a
relay switched on the "start" pick up during start-up
so that its dwell overlapped the "run" pick-up coil's.
So if a fellow eliminated the relay and set both pick-up
coils air gap to the run spec, and hooked each one up
to its own ECU, then you'd have a redundant ignition,
and you might not get stuck out in the woods. One
might even find a way to run two igition coils.