Product Summary

HEI / Male Cap Type, HEI / Male Cap Terminal Style

  • Speedway Motors' Pro Series Ready to Run Distributor is perfect for a street performance ignition upgrade and eliminates the need for a CDI box
  • Features a CNC-machined billet aluminum body and hardened steel shaft, with a sealed ball bearing on top and a sintered steel bushing on the bottom
  • Comes with a fully adjustable mechanical advance, magnetic pickup trigger, a vacuum advance (not adjustable), and a high-output circuit board module with digital tach output
  • The dielectric cap comes with solid brass terminals and a color-matched wire retainer
  • Fits Ford 351W V8
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Key Specs

MFG. Part #2897710B
BrandSpeedway Motors
Cap TypeHEI / Male
Advance TypeMechanical and Vacuum
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Speedway Motors 2897710B Details

Speedway Motors' Pro Series Ready to Run Distributor is perfect for a street performance ignition upgrade and eliminates the need to a CDI box. It features a CNC-machined billet aluminum body and hardened steel shaft, with a sealed ball bearing on top and a sintered steel bushing on the bottom. It also comes with a fully adjustable mechanical advance, magnetic pickup trigger, a vacuum advance (not adjustable), and a high-output circuit board module with digital tach output. The dielectric cap comes with solid brass terminals and a color-matched wire retainer. Fits Ford 351W V8, Internal module means no external ignition box required.

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CARB Warning

For race/ off road use or for use on pre-1966 vehicles.

Emissions warning: this part only legal for sale or use in California for racing (competition) vehicles which may never be used, registered, or licensed for use upon a public highway, or if installed in vehicles model-year 1965 or older; motorcycles model-year 1977 or older; or off-highway recreational vehicles (such as off-road motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles) model-year 1996 and older. Any other use renders the vehicle tampered and not legal for use on California public highways (any public street or roadway, public dirt road, public park, or publicly maintained right of way open to the use of the public for vehicular travel). Violations subject to $37,500 penalty per violation per vehicle, revocation of registration, loss of use on California public right of ways, and proof of correction for tampering. There are similar restrictions and penalties under federal law and the laws of all other states with penalties under federal law of up to approximately $45,268 per tampered vehicle and/or engine.

Speedway Motors 2897710B Specifications

KEY SPECS
MFG. Part #2897710B
BrandSpeedway Motors
Cap TypeHEI / Male
Advance TypeMechanical and Vacuum
GENERAL
External Ignition Box RequiredNo
Cap Terminal StyleHEI / Male
Trigger StyleMagnetic
Gear MaterialSteel
Gear RotationStandard
Distributor Cap ColorBlack
Mechanical Tach DriveNo
Slip CollarNo
Housing MaterialBillet Aluminum
Housing FinishNatural
Marine UseNo
Coil IncludedNo
Sold in QuantityEach
NotesDistributor gear is most compatible with cast iron hydraulic or solid flat tappet camshafts

Ratings & Reviews

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Customers appreciate the product for its excellent fit and build quality, replacing old dual-point distributors effectively. It's praised for its exceptional usability, requiring no wiring and fitting directly with the MSD harness. Users regard it as a perfect, cost-effective replacement for the MSD Pro Billet distributor, demonstrating its superior practicality and value.

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Nice distributor

5.0

a year ago

Weasel

Wisconsin

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Fit good,got rid of the old duel point distibutor,looks like it's built well

Would Recommend

Worked Perfectly

5.0

4 years ago

CdnCby

Winnipeg , Manitoba

Verified

Was a direct Replacement for Msd Pro Billet distributor. I didn't even have to wire it. It plugged directly in to the msd harness. And 1/4 the price. Awesome.!!!!!!

Would Recommend

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Questions & Answers

4 Questions • 4 Answers

What is the shaft diameter? I'll need to run a composite gear.

by Jack

• 4 months ago

1 answer

Does this have a built in Rev Limiter like the MSD version?

by Travis

• a year ago

1 answer

Can you buy cap and rotor replacement parts for this distributor?

by Gary

• 2 years ago

1 answer

What is the recommended ignitions coils and spark plug wires for this product?

by Levi

• 2 years ago

1 answer

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