Crank Trigger

[1320racer]

Unless the op is racing Pro Stock, Pro Mod, Comp Eliminator or turning 9000 RPM in a super stocker looking for that last .01, a crank trigger is worth NOTHING on the time slip compared to a properly functioning locked out billet distributor.

[Jeff Lee]

Originally Posted by 1320racer

Unless the op is racing Pro Stock, Pro Mod, Comp Eliminator or turning 9000 RPM in a super stocker looking for that last .01, a crank trigger is worth NOTHING on the time slip compared to a properly functioning locked out billet distributor.

You don't know what your talking about. You read it or heard it somewhere and now it is gospel to you. And I'm sure about now you'll tell us you tried one and it didn't help.

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by Jeff Lee

You don't know what your talking about. You read it or heard it somewhere and now it is gospel to you. And I'm sure about now you'll tell us you tried one and it didn't help.

Jeff, he is a bracket racer that doesn't even build his own engines, but he knows more about all this stuff than we do. He can't run faster than the shoe polish number if he has a heads up. No need to chase hundredths. Just change the shoe polish. He knows just about everything, except how to find the et bracket section here.

[killintime6968]

I am surprised he has not commented on Mexjoe's broken crankshaft ordeal.

[1320racer]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

he is a bracket racer that doesn't even build his own engines

you really think you're special. Newsflash, it's the year 2013 not 1963!

Over the next 4 months, Tilburg's, Gulius's, Watters's, Patterson's, Bischoff's and other's engine shops phones will be ringing off the wall and their shops full of the engines for and from the biggest and winingest names in class racing just as will Sunset's, Reher Morrison's, Par's, Shafiroff's, Schimdt's and others with their shops full of and building engines for the who's who of super comp, gas, street and bracket racing and you think you're special cause your "build" your own. Too ****** funny!

The truth is YOU buy your engine parts just like I do and the vast majority of class and bracket racers do, you pay a machine shop to do your machine work just like I do and the vast majority of class and bracket racers do...

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Starting on my last engine... Just getting too old for this *****.
Hauled the new Bowtie block up to Patterson's today for machining , and ordered pistons & rings.
Going to lighten the crank a tad.

you pay to have your engine dyno'd just like I do and the vast majority of class and bracket racers do so If your claim to fame is that you clean your parts, apply some assembly lube, check/set a few clearances, gap rings and torque a few bolts have it, all so you can attempt to impress the naive and clueless that you "build" your own engines...

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

When the heads show up I can check valve-to-piston clearance. Then put it together.

don't worry, I won't tell anyone the truth!.

Further, last I checked when reading National Dragster, the NHRA doesn't award Wins, Wally's or $$ for those who's claim to fame is they built their engine! Fletcher along with the biggest names in NHRA Sportsman racing don't build their own engines but somehow, he just managed to win his 84th and 85th Wally.

Oh and btw, the vast majority of class and serious bracket racers don't build their cars, carbs, transmissions, converters and headers and neither do you!

What I KNOW is what works on the track, showing on the time slip and what just lightens your wallet!

[Pedigo Perf]

Two Eds, one brain.

[buzzinhalfdozen]

Originally Posted by 1320racer

Unless the op is racing Pro Stock, Pro Mod, Comp Eliminator or turning 9000 RPM in a super stocker looking for that last .01, a crank trigger is worth NOTHING on the time slip compared to a properly functioning locked out billet distributor.

Let's see he posted the question in the Stock Super Stock tech section. What can we gather from that? Ed if you've never actually ran a crank trigger how can you comment on the pros or cons? As I stated there is NO question as to which system delivers more accurate timing, you make it sound like a crank trigger set up costs $1000 from the guy that claims we all bitch about any little extra costs the rule makers impose on us. Bottom line is if you want the most accurate timing system for your motor, be it a bracket motor or a high end comp motor go with a crank trigger! BTW the RPM of the engine is irrelevant here, the need for good steady ignition events is critical at all engine speeds.

[1320racer]

Talk about what you know, not what you think you know!

The OP's question was clear and it has been answered.

[buzzinhalfdozen]

Ed, I've got more experience with ignition systems than you could ever hope to have, I've set up and diagnosed everything from simple points systems to the latest COP based designs. As I've previously stated simply throw a timing lite on a dist. based engine then do the same to a crank trigger engine , if you're not smart enough to operate one I'm sure we could find someone willing to show you. I personally know 3 engineers who design and build state of the art ignition systems for both the OE and aftermarket, none of which would agree with your statements, so I'm assuming they also know nothing? Yes it was answered...incorrectly by you. Your set up is merely a bracket car that any person wih minimal skills can duplicate, we're supposed to be impressed with that...REALLY? Insisting that you are right in the face of all over whelming evidence to the contrary indicates a problem....maybe you should get that looked at.

[1320racer]

Again, talk about what you know, not what you think you know!