Questions on distributor-less ignitions.

[cobrashoch]

Chris - I'm rotton w/computers so I've never posted pictures. I'm a old fart that doesn't want to learn them either. My car is a drag car so it ain't pretty anyhow, but till a couple of months ago it did run in the low 9's in street trim. Aaaanyhout I'm working on another project car currently, but I plan on getting back to the Cobra soon I hope to get my NHRA sanction card. My tech guy is giving me a hard time about that very subject as I type this message. I want to try some road race stuff next summer with this I car too, so I hope that by then a new rollbar setup will make it NHRA and SCCA legal.

Other - A five stage pump costs about 600$ but sometimes a rebuilt one can be had for 300/400 or so, but you have to look for them. A Stefs pan is about 600$ and the rest can be had for about 6 or 800 dependent on how pretty you want it to look. Stay away from Earls for costs. You can run a 4 stage pump without going into the top of the engine valley tray if you want and you would not loose that much. The key is to look hard at the oil return holes on the block and the heads.
In your case I think you would be happier with a 4 or 5 lbs vacuum pump system I'd bet.
Accusump stuff good, but in my eyes it's not needed if you got the right pan, so you don't need to carry the extra weight or take the chance of oil leaks causing engine failures on road race tracks in hard driving. I use a custom Stefs road race pan that's a Pantera design that sits above my tranny level in the car. On starting up I crank the engine over till I get oil pressure then turn on the ignition switch. I run a front plate and the tranny is a Coan glide that I've adapted as a midplate with the thick adapter plate that Coan uses.
Why do you want to keep everthing on one belt? I'm using two belts, one on the super and the other on the rest of the stuff. That way if I throw a blower belt I can pop the top off of the pressure box and stumble home. I also have most of the pulleys set out past the front plate enough that later if I want too I can just mount stuff on the plate itself, (with bracing of course) by drilling holes and sticking any pulley on the existing belt. About two years ago I did just that with a air conditioner compressor, but I set it low on the engine.
cobrashock