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Old 08-29-2012, 11:08 AM
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Hi Tim,

I have an ERA kit on order and am also planning on using MSD. After hearing about some failures, I Googled MSD problems and see there are lots of failures out there. I brought this up to the folks at ERA and they indicated that a lot of the failures are caused by current spikes. They modify their wiring harness for MSD customers to include a capacitor to protect from spikes and say that they have had no issues with MSD boxes. I don't have the kit yet so don't have the benefit of looking at the harness or any experience yet, but thought that might be worth mentioning. Maybe someone with experience with this will chime in with more details.

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Kevin
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