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Originally Posted by wjb21ndtown
(Post 3078955)
I'm 99% certain that MSD distributors require MSD boxes to run. At least they did in '98 when I was running them on my race car.
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if it is one of their "ready to run" dist then the box can be bypassed to run without...
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For what it's worth... I had a boat with 500 EFIs in it that had the marine MSDs on it. However, the man that had installed them had done it in such a way that it retained the factory ignition, and by swapping a pair of 2 wire connectors on the back of the motor you could go back to the factory Merc stuff. Saved me once when one of the MSDs took a crap. Alexi and BoostPower set them up that way, so I'm sure if anyone had a question as to how to do it they could drop him a line.
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Originally Posted by gater3
(Post 3078911)
I'm pretty sure your box failing is because you drive like crap. I'm just sayin' :evilb: :ernaehrung004:
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Well, put a new alternator on and new MSD box and the boat ran perfect. The boxes blowing were only a symptom of the real problem. I would recomend to anyone that blows a box to check their voltage both on the main power wire (big red wire) and the keyed hot wire (small red wire) before putting a new box on. Probably would have saved me a MSD box. MSD says any significant difference in voltage in the two wires will blow them.
Important part is I'm back on the water!:drink: |
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