Can someone please help me with this question? I was told about upgrading my ingnition to a TFI system. However, I don't know what cars to get it out of in the junkyards and exactly which parts I'll need to make this work. I'm putting a ministock pinto together and will be racing in 15 days. Can someone please give me a parts list of what I'll need to do this swapout? If the TFI swap is too difficult, which system will give me a good spark curve for around 7000-7500 RPM. I am running a D Port 2.3L Hydraulic Roller Head with a Johnson 520 Cam. Please help!!!!! I can be reached at Holcomb31Racing@earthlink.net or HolcombRacing@yahoo.com, as well as here. :text_yb_please:
I know that some of the Escorts and Lynx used the TFI ignition on their 2.3L engines, but these engines weren't rated to the RPM's you're talking about, so I wouldn'tnecessarily trust that ignition set up for your application, at least with the factory parts. For example, distributor gears break, and it can be big bucks worth of damage as a result if anything ends up in the wrong place.
I know that on a Nissan site I visit, there is a lot of talking going on about a Petronics? flamethrower ignition as being something "great", but Ihave no personal experience with it.
For that matter, I used to run a '67 Mustang, a combo street and daily driver,
with a dual point ignition set up(Mallory, I believe) in the 70's, using a self built Heathkit Capacitive Charge ignition for spark energy that was rated to run faster than my engine, which topped out at about 6,500rpm.... with the cam I had in it last....
That's 30 years ago, wow do I feel old.
There have got to be racing application ignition systems that drop into a 2.3.
in order to run TFI i believe you have to have the complete EFI setup, not worth doing at all.
just keep watching the racing parts on ebay. good distributers keep popping up on there every week. now that racing season is back. that or make a visit to esslinger. but you might as well walk in the door backwards bent over!
I found a perfect distributor for this application....It's a Mel's ignition. It's stock in appearance, has all electronic parts internally, has a 2 wire connection harness, does NOT need a seperate module, and comes complete with a coil for 300 dollars. It is rated up to more rpm's then I'll put out!!!