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Wrong place?
I am sure I have made many mistakes on this build and will have to redo things, but may be I caught this one early. I mounted the MSD box on the passenger side fender apron and than had a reason to look at the body in this area. I believe the MSD will interfer with the body. What say you? Fix it now or it will work. There is a pic in my gallery.
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I mounted mine inside and high above my passenger footbox and it has worked great for years. Easy to get to and eash to wire and has never been in the way. Just a little "I wish I had mounted mine there" as far as the solenoid goes. I wish I had mounted mine on the firewall inside my engine bay.
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Ernie,
take out the rubber isolators or your box will interfere with the body. With the box directly on the footbox, there is just enough room to slip your fingers between the box and body. Or grind a relief hole in the body to clear the box. I'm putting my box on the tunnel behind the dash. (No tail on the dash.) |
...must be two Ernies around here... :D
My MSD is in the engine compartment area where the battery used to be (which was relocated to the trunk). |
Does the MSD box not need the rubber isolaters? I also have the box mounted on a peice of magnesium which is more substantual then the thin aluminum B@B uses. The box is really solid there! But I did not cut any wires so I can re-mount it.
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I did the same thing that Clois did, inside, but inboard of the passenger side, more over the tunnel, so that the distributor wire can run straight through the firewall, accross the intake manifold. I like a clean looking engine compartment, and reasoned that the cockpit would be cooler, after reading on this site about MSD failures, and the possibiliy that these failures may have been affected by heat. Welded a couple of 1/2" angles upright on the main square tube crossmember, so that the top of the MSD box faces the rear of the car. There is room for another one, which I am considering, in order to avoid getting stranded. Passengers and wives are more likely to ride if they perceive reliability.
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