Heat is usually your friend in these situations.  Can you apply some?  I bought some FE distributor cores at Carlisle this year.  One was broken off at the bottom of the "bowl" due no doubt to an extraction effort.  It can happen.

No sale at $53K.  Zero option car (except mandatory options) originally.  Too bad it isn't still black jade with nugget gold interior IMO.

I don't know what "motor is co" means, but I agree on losing the 270H.  I had this cam in my 428 CJ Torino and it was a dog.

I agree with everything Kevin posted - the spring numbers are in the parts books but no specs.  The gadget with the two slots and the points cam is the reluctor.  There should be two slot widths, marked something like 10 and 15 or 13 and 18.  The K code engine should like the narrower slot and a pretty quick advance curve.  Depends though on rear gear, state of tune of the engine, etc.


I have found the Mr. Gasket springs to be too light almost all of the time on the FE distributors that I work on.  The light spring controls the first 2/3 or 3/4 of the curve and the heavy spring is just loose, then comes into play to slow the curve as the engine speed increases.  If you run something like the 10 degree slot in the reluctor you will have 20 degrees of mechanical advance at the crank so will be running about 16 degrees of initial spark advance.  With this much initial, I find the Mr. Gasket spring brings the advance in so fast that the initial plus mechanical advance happens too early (low engine speed).  Very hard to say without a distributor machine or lots of trial and error in the car with a timing light and repeated removal of the distributor points plate to juggle springs.

It would be really handy to have another distributor to stick in there for testing purposes.  I have a Mallory dual point I use when I want to eliminate issues with whatever car I am having concerns about.  Do you have another or can borrow one nearby?  And also try another coil to eliminate a weak spark.

I think you could ship them to your cylinder head guy cheaper than you could drive them there at $4.50 a gallon.

An odd part, but someone must be looking for one!  I believe this to be Galaxie but if someone knows for sure, please let me know.


$75 plus shipping from 28721.  jimwoods7 at outlook dot com

I have C7 Cobra Jet rods & cast pistons as removed from a running 428 CJ engine.  Pistons are .060" over.  See photos.


Price is $325 plus shipping from NC, 28721, for all or part.  If you just want the rods, I will remove the pistons and sell just the rods.


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