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UPDATE: AFTER THE REAL TEST DRIVE after REPLACEMENT of my faulty MSD CAP.

I would have never imagined that a change of my (second) 1.5 year old failing MSD distributor cap would have made such a bid difference as it turned out today. My car has not run this good as far as I can remember. I could feel the impact of every cylinder in the seat of my pants. What a lucky find. Runs great now. Still kinda shocked.

On a related note, I met with the NorCal Cobras group for our monthly and another guy comments about his car missing lately too; so the group of us standing there looks at each other and says "hey, let's go pull that MSD distributor cap too and see"... well all be darn, sure enough, same exact problem. The little carbon contact in the center was just like mine, totally disintegrated, gone, dished in, with bits of ash all inside the cap clinging to the contacts. DISINTEGRATED. Indexed or not, we need to figure out what the real root cause is here; otherwise these MSD caps are junk.

I will be keeping an eye on the Borg Warner cap to see if the same thing happens.