Hi Rick, I will put my two bobs worth of MY opinion again, and i think you are trying to work out the best combination without spending lots, which is great. The technology that yourself and probably 95% of mini owners are using was designed for leaded fuel, low outputs, cooler running motors, and an era of increasing pollution requirements, it was not the optimum then, and is even worse now with ULP. and useless with E85 I think you can only gain incremental amounts, but they will still be gains. You cannot afford to waste spark output ,as no matter how you slightly vary your system the output is low Today I talked to one of the best cam grinders about a cam fitted to a supercharged car I am trying to sort out using our dissy. As he said, we have moved on a lot since we designed that cam with now different exhaust duration etc, etc, and this has drawn us into the quagmire of cylinder pressures, high compression, and a small sprintex spinning too fast that creates hotter mixtures.(This car has blown lots of head gaskets ) A bit of a nightmare for advance curve.to avoid detonation but still give good smooth power , especially when maximum revs used is 5000rpm Anyway to move back to your post, the line, WE have moved on also applies to ignition systems that are NOW specifically designed for ULP, alcohol (ethanol) fuels etc I do not think you can get the best out of a mini engine with the old technology, but for a lot of people it will do the job I am only trying to help you get the best out of what you have I do not compare my systems with others ( except for reliability) as most times its not comparing apples with apples As another aside, this supercharged car has a bosch points dissy fitted and one of the problems is many bosch rotor buttons have a resistor between the centre and the tip. If you cannot see all the brass on the top on any rotor you may be wasting a lot of spark. You can solder in a joiner if you have to.
cheers Lindsay Siebler
_________________ 1967 EX works rally mini restoration virtually complete OBL45F 1965 Mk1 Cooper S 1970 Colt 1100F SS 2014 Mitsubishi Imiev fully electric daily driver 1948 Allard M coupe Olds 215 v8 project 1971 Twin cam Escort ex Uk championship winning rally car project
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