Mallory unilite wiring question

[Zedyone_kenobi]

I will give it a try at 12.4 volts.

I am determined to use my Mallory, since I already bought the recurve kit for it. I have it set to give 16 Deg total advance. 14 static and 16 mechanical will give me about 30 at 2800 rpm if you believe the spring curves they give you. So I have to get this dizzy in my car. I am currently running a custom recurved dizzy form www.advancedistributors.com, and it has been working flawlessly. But it has about 20 deg of mechanical advance, so I have to run about 10 BTDC at idle to avoid pinging (10.5:1 compression on new engine) when I load up the engine hard. I bought this Mallory so I could run about 14 deg BTDC and still keep my engine happy with about 30 deg total.

So getting this darn thing to work correctly is mandatory!!!! Webers like a lot of initial advance!!

[Zedyone_kenobi]

I will give it a try at 12.4 volts.

I am determined to use my Mallory, since I already bought the recurve kit for it. I have it set to give 16 Deg total advance. 14 static and 16 mechanical will give me about 30 at 2800 rpm if you believe the spring curves they give you. So I have to get this dizzy in my car. I am currently running a custom recurved dizzy form www.advancedistributors.com, and it has been working flawlessly. But it has about 20 deg of mechanical advance, so I have to run about 10 BTDC at idle to avoid pinging (10.5:1 compression on new engine) when I load up the engine hard. I bought this Mallory so I could run about 14 deg BTDC and still keep my engine happy with about 30 deg total.

So getting this darn thing to work correctly is mandatory!!!! Webers like a lot of initial advance!!

[Zedyone_kenobi]

Good News!

The Mallory LIVES!

I just took what Carl said to heart, and my final configuration is this

RED wire from Mallory to 12.4V ballast resistor

BROWN wire to a chassis ground

GREEN wire to negative terminal of the coil.

Car started right up! I was able to get 15 deg BTDC at idle and it maxes out at 30 or 31 deg BTDC.

The idle feels great, the car fired up cold and stayed running with much more ease at 15 deg BTDC.

I was happy to hear her run on the mallory. ONly annoyance now is that the rotor does not point anywhere near where it is suppose to. When I dropped in the Mallory, the detent for the rotor to go on was about 100 degrees out of whack. I was able to just move the wires over, but keeping the OEM clocking of the wires would be great since the number 6 wire is so stretched I can barely reach the dizzy.

May have to get some custom wires and make one wire a custom length just for number 6

But for now I am thrilled. Need to make new wire covers and organize everything, but this is great. Cannot wait to feel what 15 deg BTDC static feels like.

[Carl Beck]

Ah.... I am so relieved - My greatest fear was that you followed my advice - and blew up another Module - in which case I would have to send you a new one!

Glad to hear things are going better at this point.

FWIW,

Carl B.