Daytona Sensor CD-1 ignition
 

I had my 30+ year old crane hi-6 ignition box die. I think i got my money out of it?

I'm looking for a RELIABLE replacement for it. Will be going on a 100% street twin turbo sbf running e85 at usually under 20psi but could see 30+ on rare occasions.

I have heard good things about Daytona Sensor products but don't know anyone actually running one. I was thinking about the CD-1 box (pn 102001). Anyone have anything to say about it good or bad ? Only looking for it trigger coil. My ecu can do everything else i need.

TIA

It's kinda hard not to buy a couple HI-6's off ebay for $50-$100. They don't make them like that anymore.
I miss my HI-6M's.

Had horrible experience with daytona stuff. Poor service. Bought 4 boxes off them, 2 were the older more square box, about 3 years ago generation. And 2 were the “upgraded” new box more rectangular. The original squares were fine the rectangular ones would add timing (virtually impossible ) but somehow did it out of nowhere, im talking 6-10 degrees. Did some digging on it and im not the only one with this problem. Had them do it on the dyno right infront of us.

Can you speak to the poor customer service issue?

Your rectangle box just added timing...from the software? Or timing at the plug? Lots of mechanical factors after Daytona Box timig signal to plug firing.

Don't these box designs operate on an retarding factor. You mechanically set your max timing, and the box retards the timing?

Yeah, retarding less equals more advance you can’t make something happen before it does but you can make it happen after it does. :)
It’s a time thing :)

I’ve said this many times on here - Daytona CD boxes and closed cooling are the best money I have ever spent boating.

you can see my prior posts on it, but lock the timing, build your own curve on the computer, used the anti stall feature to throw timing at it as needed.

I have 800hp NA motors with dominators so not a perfect recipe for seemless idle quality, but these boxes changed my boating experience.

I just bought a box off of ebay for $50. It was the same version as mine. Hopefully it works. I just wanted something to get the car back on the road. Still looking for a new quality replacement.

Can you elaborate on the poor service?

When the box advanced the timing, was it past the max timing set by crank trigger/dist. Was it because of the software settings?

I just went back and read all l the comments on the cd-1. All seem positive, except a few posts back. Unfortunately the cd-1 has a lot of features that i would never use. My efi ecu does everything. I just need it to fire the coil off. From reading the posts from a few years ago, the price has sure gone up quite a bit.

Fair enough given you are EFI. They were a GAME changer on my carb motors. I’ve spent 1200 bucks on Beer/Liquor for a poker run for OTHER PEOPLE. Spending that on 2 Ignition Systems so that I don’t have to defecate myself every time we pull into lunch was best money ever spent.