MSD 8595

[gregaba]

I looked at all the options for a box after having 4 MSD boxs go bad on me and replacing 5 coils in my friends 66 Mustang.
In the early 90's [91 or 92] I bought a Taylor box and it still works.
I went on Summit and found the Taylor-Vertex part number 401001 and ordered it.
Build in rev limiter,will flash a led for any errors,not for a ballast resistor.
Made in the USA and I hope it last's as long as my old one.
Greg

[fryedaddy]

its like a box of chocolates,you never know what your going to get.i got five years out of my msd box,a mouse chewed my wires and it shorted out.it might still be working if not for that mouse.

[Rory428]

its like a box of chocolates,you never know what your going to get.i got five years out of my msd box,a mouse chewed my wires and it shorted out.it might still be working if not for that mouse.

I think the older MSD stuff was better quality. I switched my Fairmont from an Accel dual point with a Super Coil over 30 years ago, to a recurved junkyard Duraspark distributor from a 76 F250, and a MSD 6T ignition box. This was before the MSD 6AL was available, the 6T has a plug for use with an external MSD "Soft Touch" rev limiter, which I use with a 2 step for controlling the starting line RPM at WOT before I dumped the clutch. Over 3 decades later, that same 6T box is working fine. By comparison, on my 85 Mustang Stock Eliminator car, I used the newer MSD 6AL, which has a built in rev limiter. In the 14 years that i raced that Mustang, I had 2 6AL boxes fail on me. Maybe just bad luck, but that old 6T has been bulletproof.

[427John]

All of my MSD stuff is older than shit (mid 90's and older) and and has been trouble free,but I always ran the vibration mounts,I don't know if that has anything to do with it,but has worked for me.Another thing is I always used soldered connections none of the crappy crimp on connectors.