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09-08-2013, 05:12 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Murrieta, Ca,
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Cobra Make, Engine: F5 stock 302 EFI
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MSD declares bankruptcy!
Happened Friday--http://www.msdignition.com/forum/showthread.php?p=81931#post81931
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09-08-2013, 05:47 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Ancaster Ontario,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Boss Replica Motors BB 460 by New Generation Engines
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Now what is left? Pertronics? Oh Lord have mercy!
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09-08-2013, 05:57 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Chester,
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Cobra Make, Engine: West Coast Dreams
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Mallory!
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09-08-2013, 06:20 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Las Vegas,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Shelby CSX4005LA, Roush 427IR
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Well, that's kind of sad. How many have had a MSD box in their car? My Cobra came with one. I put one in my old Chevy just when electronic ignitions were catching on.
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09-08-2013, 06:31 PM
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Location: McMurray,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance #522
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Chapter 11 is a reorganization....not an end of business, which is Chapter 7.
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09-08-2013, 06:35 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Rushville,
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Cobra Make, Engine: red Shell Valley, white stripes
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There's an interesting article in this month's Hot Rod magazine, involving counterfeit performance parts . MSD boxes are apparently often counterfeited. Fake parts hurt the reputation of the manufacturers in a real way. Recommended reading.
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When I said I wanted to be somebody, I probably should have been more specific...
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09-08-2013, 08:17 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Tempe,AZ-High Point,NC,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham #684, 482FE, Mike Mccluskey build
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dirty Harry
There's an interesting article in this month's Hot Rod magazine, involving counterfeit performance parts . MSD boxes are apparently often counterfeited. Fake parts hurt the reputation of the manufacturers in a real way. Recommended reading.
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is that kinda like a Counterfeit Cobra... 
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09-08-2013, 09:07 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Former owner of Long Live the Bow tie Contemporary #102 427 Chevy .30 over Merlin heads 11to1, TBI injection
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dirty Harry
There's an interesting article in this month's Hot Rod magazine, involving counterfeit performance parts . MSD boxes are apparently often counterfeited. Fake parts hurt the reputation of the manufacturers in a real way. Recommended reading.
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Fake parts hurt everyone. But most are to short sighted to see how. |
09-09-2013, 04:01 AM
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As long as nobody gets hurt I guess it is a good thing.
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09-09-2013, 04:41 AM
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Does MSD make the copy-cat self labeled brands that Summit Racing, Jegs, and others sell?
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09-09-2013, 05:01 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Little Rock area,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA Street Roadster #782 with 459 cu in FE KC engine, toploader, 3.31
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From all of the MSD distributor, coil and CD box failures I read about this would not appear to be a huge loss. The allure of using MSD components escapes me.  |
09-09-2013, 07:14 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: SoCal,
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Cobra Make, Engine: CSX #4xxx with CSX 482; David Kee Toploader
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Now what is left? Pertronics? Oh Lord have mercy!
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I have posted before about my past issues with my MSD setups and failures. Pertronix now and never looked back. My MSD dizzy and box are stored right next to my set of BFG T/A radials in the pile of "lessons learned" 
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09-09-2013, 07:31 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Broken Arrow. OK ( South Tulsa), USA,
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Cobra Make, Engine: 66 COBRA FE 427 /4SP. (HCS Coupe w/ 408 Stroker and TKO 600 -sold)
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My first MSD lasted about 8 years and my second is working on its 4th year. No complaints from me. Now, BFG Radial T/A are another story...still have a set too.
Clois
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09-09-2013, 07:46 AM
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Location: West Chester,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #795 427 S/C completed Jan. '14 - '68 FE 427 side oiler
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Internet searches for MSD yield a lot of stories ranging from problematic to complete success and everything in between. There are also threads trashing Pertronix as well, so no clear winner.
As for the bankruptcy, many companies have emerged from Chapter 11 successfully and became better and stronger than before. Being optimistic, it is possible that this is good for MSD.
Kevin
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09-09-2013, 08:00 AM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance
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Many companies restructure so that they can be sold. MSD is not going away anytime soon. And, yes, a good read on the Hot Rod Magazine story on copycat products.
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09-16-2013, 03:28 PM
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Location: Waco, TX,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #766, FE V8, Toploader
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Pertronix has been great for me (ERA Cobra and the MG TD I used to own). Never even needed to consider MSD.
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09-17-2013, 05:21 AM
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Location: Lake Havasu City, AZ,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Arps/Burroughs/Hurricane/428FE
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Never had any problems with MSD products, they will be OKAY with a new reorganization, too much debt.
Good Luck!
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09-17-2013, 06:10 AM
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA Street Roadster #782 with 459 cu in FE KC engine, toploader, 3.31
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Probably too much debt from all the warranty claims they had to honor.  |
09-17-2013, 06:31 AM
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Location: Ankeny,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Hi tech 427 SC
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Anyone unhappy with TAs didn't get their roller with Hoosier street tires. They leaked air through the sidewalls/a tire that isn't airproof?
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09-17-2013, 01:41 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: 66 Cobra
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I'm honestly not surprised. Consider most of us have phones that do more complex processes at maybe 1/8 the size. Was there any real reasons for that massive old red box when most computer companies can do things far more complex and soo much smaller.
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"Everything is alive. If you get angry at a vehicle or the trans, it won't fix until you apologize and say you are sorry." "The vehicle always knows what it is doing and what the cause of it's bad feeling is. If you ask it humbly what the problem is, it will tell you. Then you and it will both be happy."
Gil Younger
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