Technical No more Mallory.

LOL I always replaced the Mallory points with Echlin Blue streaks anyway.

I guess I better snag some modules for my unilites while they are still available and maybe a couple resistors, maybe even a couple super coils ( I think that is what they are called looks like a square box).

Damn it, all my favorite stuff is becoming defunct.

Edit damnit:
I just checked my favorite catalog speed shop and they still got lots of Mallory stuff advertised. I think I'll call later.

 

if you want it really small, go with that coil pack crank triggers stuff, you just need to figure out a cam position sensor.

but that's kind of a strange thing to do to an old chevy.

 

I have lost a module in a Mallory then got a trick from a Mallory tech when I went to buy a spike filter from them. He said that the unilite pulls one amp per 1000 rpm and that an inline filter works just fine. So if you generally pull 7K a 7.5 fast burn fuse will protect your distributer from spikes. So far so good for me.

I really lie to use the Mallory resistor with the unilite, they seem to work better with the proper resistor. I have tried GM and Chrysler resistors and they are just not right, or don't seem to be.

MSD bought or merged with Mallory which had already merged with Accel.

One thing that you want to watch for or think about is that the smaller the diameter of the distributer the harder it is to set your timing. Less turn on a smaller diameter means more degrees. if you already don't tune with a light touch it will make your life really miserable. I am not speaking to anyone in particular but I have read way to many threads asking how to time an engine or I pulled my distributer and now I can't get my engine to start and those guys really don't want a small diameter distributer.

The window distributer is larger in diameter than either of the Mallory distributers I have. The cap isn't as large as the HEI but the base is almost as large.

You can buy a complete crank trigger conversion from MSD ( and maybe other manufacturers) for the SBC, but all of them that I have seen either use a distributer and a control box or go coil on plug with a computer.

 

OK, there is some mixed up stuff here. This is the skinny;
Mallory had been part of the Mr. Gasket group for YEARS - this included Mallory, Mr; Gasket, Accel, Lakewood, hays Clutches, Superchips, and Quick Time Bellhousing. MSD had bought Race Pack and Edge and this debt is what had put them into Bankruptcy. Autotronic Controls Corp, the parent company of MSD was taken out of Bankruptcy by Z Capitol, an investment group. Z Capitol provided the funding for the newly named MSDP and they bought the entire Mr. Gasket Group, promptly killing off the Oldest name in Automotive Ignition - Mallory. This was in January of 2015. Then in September of 2015, Holley, through their investment group buys MSDP. Now Holley has said they are going to bring Mallory back, but the genius' at MSDP had apparently thrown away most of the original Mallory Tooling and information - so we'll see where that goes. And of course Holley is no stranger to bankruptcy from buying companies either, they have had at least two themselves. They were acquired by a Capitol Investment firm as well. Monomy Capital Partners bought them in 2012. That whole group now consists of: Holley, Weiand, ****** Headers, Earl's Performance, Accel, Diablo Sport, MSD, Mallory, Frostbite Cooling, Lakewood, Superchips, Quicktime, Demon Carburetors, Flowtech Exhaust, Hays Clutches, Mr. Gasket, NOS, Sniper.
Can someone say Performance Monopoly ? LOL

 

There is also a minimum size below which the cap and rotor can't work as effectively. As the contacts inside the cap get closer together it increases the chances of firing two or more adjacent cylinders in the firing order, especially at higher RPMs. Also at higher speeds the arcing inside the cap creates an ionized path in the air around the contacts making it even easier for the spark from the rotor to jump to a random terminal in the cap.

Probably the main reason that HEIs have a larger cap and rotor is so that the higher output voltage gets distributed only to the correct cylinder at the correct time. They didn't design them that way because it was cheaper or better looking.

 

excellent explanation for me to understand.
. THANK YOU VERY MUCH !!!