New distributor install

[frankensteinZ]

Okay I have been asking around about putting in a 80' 280z distributor in a 72 240z. I am putting in the ps60 crane coil out of MSA, spark plugs, wires, all along with the 80 distributor and the 1280 module. I have had several people tell me that they had no problem. They just attached the tach to the new coil and took the ballast out and just connected the wires on opposite sides of it. Pretty much just follow thehttp://www.geocities.com/zgarage2001/engine.html

link. The part about installing the distributor is about a half of the way down. In the picture its show a performance coil getting hooked in with the newer distributor. At the end of the section it says however not to hook up the tach to this coil because it will fry the old tach. Is this true? According to some of the people I talk to there is no problem just hooking everything up as long as you have your wires right. I then talked to a member to day and he said, he has made this install on several cars and the tach has never worked after he installed the newer distributor. He also said there is an adapter through msa that could make the old tach work but he has never tried it. Sorry wanting to be so specific on this but I just wanted to make sure I did not ruin anything and that I did it right.

Please somebody straighten me out.

Frankenstein Z

[beandip]

:classic: I have done the same installation on my Z . I used a '79ZX dist with the 12 80 markings only I used the ZX coil. Now my car is a '73 and I dont know specifically if there is a difference in tachs but I am running the '73 tach and have been for 2yrs andit works great . You might contact the "sparks " guru escanlon about the tach and year difference but he is running the same setup I believe in his '71 with the stock tach. When I did the mod. I was told this vary same info. I found geocities after I did the change . When you went to geocities did you scroll down and see the wireing digram ? After seeing the diagram it made more sence. He states that the stock tack wont work but I know of at least a dozen guys that are doing it with out trouble. All the best. GaryROFL

[ZmeFly]

follow this link to solve your tach problems.

http://www.zhome.com/ZCMnL/tech/ZXPertronix.htm