Re: Voltage Regulators - What Is Normal

Posted by Joe On 2023/5/27 22:10:34

Jim - ha, you're right! I've gotta say yes, really, it runs very well. It idles smoothly, almost silently, it has no issues with light to medium acceleration, but it becomes resistant/disagreeable once you're accelerating past 40 or so and try to move it along further. It'll go 55-60, but it gets to missing a lot trying to get there. Once the direct drive engages and the engine slows, the ride smooths out. I will say, too, for the record, that it's a 327 mated to its original and presumably un-rebuilt Ultramatic. I'll verify six degrees again, too.

I'm using their .6 Ohm Flame-Thrower coil on there (their literature recommends this for eight cylinder applications). I do have an email in to Pertronix with a bunch of these questions, and generally just verifying I'm on the right track with what I'm pursuing as solutions.

Owen - will keep an eye out for the 303s, too, if these 295s don't work out.

HPH - yeah, that's the sense I had as well. I'll mess with them a little more and see where we end.

Thanks, guys!