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Old 08-03-2017, 11:07 PM
Michael C Henry Michael C Henry is offline
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Mallory Unilite distributor and coil needs resisted 12V for normal operation. If you are using the Mallory HyFire box, The box takes care of dropping the power. Full 12V for starting resistor bypass on starter solenoid then drops voltage down for normal operation Mallory has a shorting plug that eliminates the BOX, I keep mine in the glove box. I had a newIgnition box go bad .It would idle in the alley just fine. I drove the car and it started running like crap. but would idle just fine but it wouldn't leave the stop light. It got so bad I was happy to get back home. I used the shorting plug and swapped to a resisted power source and it ran just fine. I blamed the HyFire IV box. It was still under warranty so I sent it back and ordered another HyFire IV box and it didn't have any problems.
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