Hey Guys, hope all is well with you all.

Quick scoop.  Building a truck and I am close to mounting the engine on the frame.  As my baby (272 Y block with only 7,500 orig miles) sits on the engine stand I need to start making some electronic decisions. 

My problem is I am a mechanical kind of guy, not much in the electronics arena.  I want to run the one wire Alt, with J. Mummerts bracket.  Other than that I have no idea what I should get.  Can any of you gents give me the skinny on a reliable set-up for my engine. 

MSD, Mallory, Joe Hunt, I am lost.  Not sure what should go with what....  Sorry, don't flame me, just being honest and looking for a little expert guidance.

Thanks,

Ryan

I just put a MSD 8383 direct drop in distributor into my '56 F250 stock 272 . I need to do a bit of tweaking on the timing curve etc, but it started first kick. Seems to be a good unit. That is with a single Edelbrock 94 carb. to get away from the Load-o-matic that came stock. Be aware that to do said "tweaking" you have to take the distributor cap off and change out springs which is kid of a pain considering where the distro sits at the back of the engine. If you want to set it up accurately you will need a tach that goes up to 4000 RPM to check various points along the advance curve. The Ford manual has a little chart showing the advance at various RPMs (note this is distributor RPM, not engine RPM) and the Distributor comes with a set of advance curves based on different spring configurations.

Other things of note...The 8383 is a bit taller than the stock so plug wire length may have to be adjusted, and the connections on the top of the MSD are like a spark plug, not well connections like the stock unit. LMC trucks has the rubber grommets to route the wires behind the block like stock. The holes in the grommets are small so you probably want to use 6.5 or 7 mm wires, not 8's like I did.



Tony