Kevin Heine
10-04-2005, 07:30 AM
Help me out with this:
I have a 84 Chris Craft with a 305 (228 Merc). I've completley redone the boat and have done alot to the motor. I'm not pleased with the way the motor starts. Due to the cam I have if I set the initial at around 16, it fires up the minute you look at the key. But, it has 24 degrees advance and that puts it a 40 total, way to much. I was told to throw away the factory distributor, its a thunderbolt, completely electronic. No mechanical advance at all. I purchased an Accel electronic dist, with a vacuum advance. Not intending to use the vacuum but thats the only way I could get one. However I talked to a "boat mechanic" who told me the accel will not work. The way a marine dist. advances is different and I will have many problems. He said the factory dist. has 50K volts. But, this thing is 20 yrs old. A friend of mine has a 79 Chapparell with the same motor and he installed an accell dual point in his several years ago and he loves it. I was thinking about just buying a MSD Blaster coil, it says its designed for offroad/marine use. What would y'all do. Stay with the origianl or go the accell that will give more "tuning options".
I have a 84 Chris Craft with a 305 (228 Merc). I've completley redone the boat and have done alot to the motor. I'm not pleased with the way the motor starts. Due to the cam I have if I set the initial at around 16, it fires up the minute you look at the key. But, it has 24 degrees advance and that puts it a 40 total, way to much. I was told to throw away the factory distributor, its a thunderbolt, completely electronic. No mechanical advance at all. I purchased an Accel electronic dist, with a vacuum advance. Not intending to use the vacuum but thats the only way I could get one. However I talked to a "boat mechanic" who told me the accel will not work. The way a marine dist. advances is different and I will have many problems. He said the factory dist. has 50K volts. But, this thing is 20 yrs old. A friend of mine has a 79 Chapparell with the same motor and he installed an accell dual point in his several years ago and he loves it. I was thinking about just buying a MSD Blaster coil, it says its designed for offroad/marine use. What would y'all do. Stay with the origianl or go the accell that will give more "tuning options".