04-02-2002, 06:28 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: NorthCentral Pa.,
Posts: 155
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Why My 428 Just wasn't Quick enough.
Well, Here's the story. I assumed ( First Mistake) that the former
owner of my car had set up the MSD and the timing. Well I was wrong. After blowing a hed gasket at 1800 miles. I started to check more closely at a few things. My MSD Distributor was set to give me max advance at 5000 rpm and limit it to 20 degrees. No wonder it felt kinda not like 500 hp. And the wires to my coil are backwards. And checking with the engine builder I found out that the car got hot on more than one occasion on the initial run and as few times after that. I'm assuming thats why my head gasket left. I'm hoping now that my heads and block are still straight.
So never assume anything .....
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