I saw Accel makes a clear distributor cap for our cars....Has anyone used this cap???? They said it WONT carbon track but I wanna here that from someone that has used this cap before.
I posted this in the Aftermarket Forum but didnt get any feeback....

Dan

 

It's been around awhile.

It's about the same as any other cap as far as how it works. It will carbon-track the same as any other if subjected to the same stress. It looks cool at night, with the sparks going on in there; doesn't stay real clear for very long though. But there's nothing wrong with it that I know of if you want to try it.

 

never seen it before, thats a cool idea though.

 

hummmm...thanks for the info. kinda dissapointing that it doesnt stay clear for a long time. Maybe I'll buy it... But Im gonna wait a few days to hear what other people have to say about..


Again thanks for the info RB83L69.




Dan

 

It yellows a bit, and gets that same dust in it that any other color cap does...

 

do you know how "clear" it is after the cap is "broken in" ????

 

Hard to describe.

Get one and see. It should last about as long as any other cap, even if it doesn't look great for 50,000 miles or whatever; nothing to lose really.

 

I called up Summit today and they said Accel/Mr Gasket DOESNT make these caps for or cars. I didnt argue with the guy I was talking to but I went to Summits webpage and according to "applications" this cap would fit cars from '74 to '93. The part number is Mrg-1263. Personally its not a big deal to me IF there is a clear cap for our cars but it would have been nice for the guy from Summit to at least look instead of just saying "nope....wont work on your car." Im lost.....what do you guys think??:lala: :lala: :lala: :lala:

Dan

 

if you have a 87 to 92 TPI motor the caps on those cars are smaller than the typical HEI cap.

 

That applies to the early TPI cars too. Even more so, in fact. The bigger coil-in-cap dist cap REALLY won't fit under that cover piece on the back of the plenum. So TPI caps are exactly the same as all other caps, except for they're completely different; namely, not as tall.

If you leave the cover thing off of the TPI and use a dist with the regular base, a regular cap will fit.

 

ok...Im a little confused. Are you saying that Mrg-1263 cap WOULD fit on a TPI car? By the way what does HEI stand for?? High Energy Ignition???

:lala: :lala:

Dan

 

The coil on TPI cars (and most of the 87 & newer small blocks) do not have the coil in the cap. The coil sits off to the side and is connected to the distributer via a standard coil wire. The coil in cap type is usually refered to as the HEI distributor, even though the small cap (seperate coil) is also HEI. Did that make it about as clear as mud? And, yes, HEI does stand for High Energy Ignition.

 

I seem to recall the 85-86 TPI cars having the modified coil-icap dist. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think they invented the divorced-coil HEI until 87.

 

By golly RB, the old dendrites still DO have some connective ability...

Yes, the "vintage" TPI engines used a coil-in-cap distributor cap that was different (lower) than the not-so-TPI-looking engines.

BTW - I have used the older (Kettering type - with breaker points) GM distributors with clear Mr. Gasket caps. They last about 30K miles like anything else, yellow in about a year or so, and probably aren't worth the extra cost.

 

If they are as prone to cracking as the colored Accel caps, I wouldn't waste your money.

 

I had thought I had been noticing a couple of remaining neurons that I could rub together and make fire intermittently.... for a while there I thought maybe it was turning into a perpetual motion machine or something.....