Opened up the top of my HEI to see what it looks like. Pretty clean with some surface rust on the parts of the centrifugal advance. The bushings look tight. I took the advance apart and cleaned the parts a little. The advance turns out but seems sluggish coming back, not very snappy. There's a tiny bit of up and down play on the shaft, I don't know how much until I remove and measure it. The vacuum advance says 19-24 on it. I don't know why it has a range? I think the distributor just needs to be taken apart and cleaned.
I'm thinking about replacing parts with these two kits:
Accel 31035 adjustable vacuum advance
Accel 31041 advance curve kit for HEI w/ vacuum
Will those work with the L6 HEI?
The other parts I'm going to be swapping out when I can afford it:
Accel 8129 Cap & rotor
Accel 4021 8mm SS plug wires
Accel 140003 Supercoil
I'm not sure about the Accel 35361 module? I've read that replacing the stock module on a stock/street build doesn't make any difference. Then again, having new parts can't hurt.
Last edited by Lifeguard; 05/15/14 03:07 PM.
