New Exhaust and Ignition Upgrades

Originally Posted 24 Nov 2007
Its been a bit since I have updated this thing, but we have not been idle. My Borla ProXS muffler and the Pertronix Ignitor came in on Oct 29, and on Oct 30 we put the Ignitor in the car. Really simple installation. You pull the points and condenser, put in the ignitor, put the sleeve on the distributor, and bam. Done. Had to adjust the timing a little after that, but it fired started up on the very first crank. SO much better than points. I had my local garage (Ray's Garage in Batesville) put the exhaust on the car. The old donut gasket was about gone and there was some seriously rotten spots in the old pipe, not to mention that there was no muffler either. Loud, but BAD drone. The Borla fixed that. Now it sounds nice and clean but has a bit of throat to it. Sounds pretty good for a stock 6cyl engine. Drove it over to Amagon and let me aunt see it. She noticed the wheels first thing and thought that it sounded like it ran better than she remembered. She was glad to see it again, and was glad that it was running. Made someone's day anyway. Up next, the front end....