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Old 06-01-2013, 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Rick Parker View Post
I for one am satisfied with MSD products. They hate extreme heat but more so vibration.
Well, I was pretty happy with my MSD 8352. I ran it for about 5 years, and then it failed. I thought it was a bad coil, but traced it down to the distributor itself. But then, having had TWO new replacement MSD 8352's fail in ONE MONTH, plus a MSD knock-off fail as well, I've lost confidence in their products.

And when you lose confidence, there's no point. I don't enjoy happily driving along and having my engine suddenly die and fail to restart. And I don't want to drive my Cobra wondering at which moment it's going to fail.

The first failed 8352 I decided to replace the pickup, but this didn't revive it. There is a circuit board in the base of the distributor, and I'm convinced this is where these are failing. A simpler design would be more reliable.

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