Anyone have expierence with the small cap HEI's rebuilt by Dave Ray or should I just look at an MSD ready to run. And opinion on need for MSD ignition box vs regular HEI set for street only application.
Thanks

Originally posted by SoCalRat:
Anyone have expierence with the small cap HEI's rebuilt by Dave Ray Running one on my son's 383 - no problems and workmanship is top quality.

Going on 2 years in my 383 with no complaints. I keep the car in good tune but people notice how quick the engine fires or should I say explodes to life. Had a cracked plug and other than not getting the gas mileage I was use to I wouldn't have noticed anything was wrong and I attribute that to the ignition...

Installed one of "Daves" on a 73 motor home with a 455 olds in it, Man what a perfect distributer.

Jim

Thanks guys. Pretty much confirmed my plan. Spoke with Dave and he is leaving the land of "fruits and nuts: or Calleforigenia as the terminator govenor proclaims. Headed to Washington so may be a while before he is up and running again but I have time. Spoke fondly of Gene Chas regarding a thermostat choice. Seems likke a good guy.

Dave's great, man. He's helped me tremendously over the past few years with my own distributor "foibles", even though he has yet to make a dime off of me.

Now that I'm making a few extra bucks, I may get him to set me up with a distributor. I've always wanted a small-body HEI with a professional curve on it.

BTW, good to hear from you, SoCalRat. It's been a while.

Originally posted by cjlandry:
Dave's great, man. He's helped me tremendously over the past few years with my own distributor "foibles", even though he has yet to make a dime off of me.

Now that I'm making a few extra bucks, I may get him to set me up with a distributor. I've always wanted a small-body HEI with a professional curve on it.

BTW, good to hear from you, SoCalRat. It's been a while. I'll second that. Dave went out of his way to help me dial in my ZZ4 HEI, and went so far as to email detailed instructions and photos, asking nothing in return. I'd do business with someone like that any day. Ignitionman is the man. graemlins/thumbsup.gif

I ran one too. Unit worked well, and he was very helpfull when I ran into some problems. But the problems where my fault, graemlins/clonk.gif .

I run one of his conversions on my Chevelle. Its worked fine for 2-3 years.

I am very happy with the product AND the customer support Dave provided...

I will definitely use him again for future projects...