I have read a lot of posts but most of them are old. As far as today goes what is the best hei distributor for my 383. Its only gonna be a street car might not ever see a track. Looking for the best bang for the buck. I have a factory hei that I rebuilt it has a 50000 volt coil and all that jazz but no advance stop bushings. Maybe some suggestions on how to make the one I have work or opinions on aftermarket units. I've been out of the motor building game for a while and there is a lot more options than there used to be. Any info helps thanks.

 

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Some idea of your combo old help ,ESP not so good

 

My experience with HEI distributors is they all work and perform about the same. Some of the cheap ones eventually have some wiring issues or other mechanical problems but when they are working they all seem about the same.

 

I'm just looking for something I can buy that is going to perform On a street build for at least a few years if they are all so closely matched in workmanship then why the huge price gaps?

 

A lot of it is cost for a name brand, some of it is material quality. MSD makes an awesome HEI but I think they over charge for it. I

know a lot of people running $50 HEIs off ebay and have been trouble free for years. I even know guys that replaced MSDs with them.

I know people who have had wiring issues with the summit and other cheap brands and I know people who have melted MSD coils.

Seems like a lot of it is a crap shoot with the cheap version mostly due to Chinese manufacturing.

Buy what makes you comfortable, read online reviews and see what other people say.

 

See I have a perfectly good dist. But it doesn't have any stop bushings. Which is making it a pain to dial in proper timing. Any way to rig some bushings? Although that doesn't seem like something I would want to do I didn't know if there was some trick to that. Or if I should chunk it and buy aftermarket.

 

Some people drill and tap screws into the arms to limit the travel. I am not away of any large cap HEIs that have an adjustable limiter on max advance

 

I'd recommend whatever the HEI dizzy is that GM performance parts puts out with their zz383 (or any of the higher performance) crate engine. I can't find a part number but mine's been going strong for 7+ years.

 

So only the small caps have stop bushings? That's my main concern is finding a good model that has stop bushings brand name is of no importance really.

 

So what is the difference between the large and small caps. Why would one have the bushings and not the other? Or should I just not worry about the bushings and sidestep the issue. To further explain with my base timing set anywhere between 12* and 14* I still end up with like 38* of total timing without the vac. Advance hooked up of course. The motor likes more initial and less mechanical seems to perform better this way. Trying to give it what it wants lol.

 

Anybody?