Stromberg EFire success

Yeah, I noticed the OP had not been back in a long time. I realize when something works well, most people say nothing, its mostly the people who have problems that we hear from. That's normal human behavior. Mine had been working just fine for a couple years. But I'm still a little nervous and would prefer an original distributor. I may be heading back that way. I contacted Skip Haney the other day about my extra '35 helmet distributor.

I have the same feeling about alternators. Not for reliability reasons, just principle and ugliness...
 

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ndnchf said:
Yeah, I noticed the OP had not been back in a long time. I realize when something works well, most people say nothing, its mostly the people who have problems that we hear from. That's normal human behavior. Mine had been working just fine for a couple years. But I'm still a little nervous and would prefer an original distributor. I may be heading back that way. I contacted Skip Haney the other day about my extra '35 helmet distributor.

I have the same feeling about alternators. Not for reliability reasons, just principle and ugliness...
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alchemy said:
Palermo hasn’t been on the Fordbarn since last November. He might still be walking home.
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Might that indicate he’s happily driving while everyone else here is complaining about the quality of new points, condensers, and coils?

I actually had to walk home many times because of new points, condensers, and coils. The reality is the quality of these new parts is garbage. Yes, one person rebuilds condensers, and one person rebuilds coils. It is not, however, common knowledge.

A Pertronix crab unit on 6v positive ground has started and fired for me EVERY time for the last 10 years.

Also, no one can answer this: if the Stromberg E Fire is so bad, why is a prominent, thorough flathead builder, H&H Flatheads, using them on 90% of their builds? You can’t stay in business if your engines don’t run.

But don’t get me wrong, I’m also glad people are getting the stock ignitions to work reliably.
 
Fritz said:
Might that indicate he’s happily driving while everyone else here is complaining about the quality of new points, condensers, and coils?

I actually had to walk home many times because of new points, condensers, and coils. The reality is the quality of these new parts is garbage. Yes, one person rebuilds condensers, and one person rebuilds coils. It is not, however, common knowledge.

A Pertronix crab unit on 6v positive ground has started and fired for me EVERY time for the last 10 years.

Also, no one can answer this: if the Stromberg E Fire is so bad, why is a prominent, thorough flathead builder, H&H Flatheads, using them on 90% of their builds? You can’t stay in business if your engines don’t run.

But don’t get me wrong, I’m also glad people are getting the stock ignitions to work reliably.
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Yes, I've wondered that too. It would be nice to hear from more of those who have had good luck with thrm. I imagine they are out there.

Steve
 
I’m building an engine now. Will be using stromberg Efire. After going to something similar in my vw and NEVER having to adjust it, I’m looking forward to trying this unit. I also don’t know any better as it’s my first Flathead but I didn’t want to mess with points.

::ducks out of the way from flying tomatoes::
 
and it is better to remove timing cover and clean all the old gunk out of it before installing Efire so bearing gets lots of oil
 
I installed the e fire on my flathead 6 volt, pos ground1940, after removing the helmet distributor.

No fire out of the e fire distributor ! Fire at the coil, extra ground strap, black wire to the neg, white to the switch ignition wire, ground to the positive side of coil.
 
this debate AGAIN electronics regardless of whose they are HATE spikes and early cars are full of them [wasnt a problem in the earlydays ].So prep your wiring as best you can to eliminate them .Dig deep enough in the literature that surrounds them and you will find most of them require a filter of some sort or a wiring change to reduce this problem
 
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