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Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by 325w, Oct 8, 2025.

  1. Any idea of manufacture? IMG_3781.jpeg
     
  2. RodStRace
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  3. squirrel
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    I had a hunch, so I did some googling.

    accel.jpg
     
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  4. Mr. Squirrel you the man. My google just can’t hold a light to yours. Thank you!
     
  5. @squirrel , hunches usually get me going in the right direction too. Thanks for the insight.
     
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  6. 19Eddy30
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    Thats what I thought it was when first seen it posted , that it was Accle , but also look like some one added to a stock Oem distributor , back in lats 80's into 90s
    There where kits, & I am sure others like me making one off items using parts from multiple different manufacturers
    That will make people scratch there heads what they are looking @ if end up with My / Are stash pile of parts / hoarding if not all cleaned out gone to scrapper
     
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  9. squirrel
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    well....actually, Accel used Dodge tune up parts, such as cap and rotor and reluctor, so maybe it is a Dodge?
     
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  10. Your hunches work better than most people's educated guesses.
    :rolleyes:
     
  11. It came out of a chevy
     
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  12. squirrel
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    interesting distributor, uses a Ford vacuum advance and Dodge cap/rotor, and fits in a Chevy.
     
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  13. gimpyshotrods
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    Yup. I had a Accel distributor in my Malibu in the 1980's.

    The cap and rotor were Mopar.
     
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  14. 31 Coupe
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    I bought a similar old (CHEAP) ACCEL electronic SBC distributor to modify for my 8ba flathead. The electronic modules are no longer available, but as mentioned above, they use a MOPAR V8 pickup coil and reluctor .... both are available from ROCKAUTO. I'm proposing to use a remote mounted GM HEI module when the ACCEL one eventually dies.
     
  15. patsurf
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    i'd like to see that in the chevy....:eek:
     
  16. squirrel
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    I meant the one in the first post in the thread...it's a Chevy distributor.

    [​IMG]
     
  17. patsurf
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    ah!!:p
     
  18. Mr48chev
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    Yep, when a lot of Accell distributors were floating around it was pretty common to use a Mopar cap and rotor on them when you couldn't get Accell pieces Or were too cheap to pay for them, you could use the Mopar pieces.
     
  19. cfmvw
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    There's a story about Lamborghini buying a new clutch for his Ferrari, and discovering the Ferrari price he paid for it was actually a Lamborghini tractor clutch.
     

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