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NEVER saw an RB engine distributor like this! What is it??

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Can anyone help identify this RB engine distributor??
First, sorry for the poor photo, but that's as good as it gets...

It appears to be cast, has a tach drive, single wire. Photo is from early 1970.
Notice it has a normal look to it by the tan cap, but is wider near the bottom.

Could it be some earlier '60s housing? Perhaps Chrysler Marine application? Heavy duty truck??

Opinions welcome. If I can find out what it is, I then have to locate one, or at least a housing like it.

Thanks! odd RB engine distributor, tach drive, points.jpg
 
Too bad it wasn't clearer - was this from a magazine? The only distributor that this reminds me of were some early Cragar units.
 
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Quick and dirty Photoshop clean up. if you can post the original high rest image, I can try to pull some moreclarity out of it.
 
The original photo was about 3" x 4". The distributor is about 3/8" tall in that photo. Sadly, there isn't any higher resolution photo available.
 
HA! Funny guy... Well Polaroid made photos of odd looking distributors that nobody can identify, so far!
 
some old prestolite units for 413 industrials that I have not laid eyes on in about 40 years
 
I looked at a bunch of pics on the net of industrial 413s and they all had a vacuum advance can, along with the straight style cast housing...
 
Wanted - to buy - 1969 1970 nascar hemi distributor.JPG

The distributor is a 426 hemi nascar electronic unit from 1969 - 1970 time period.
I need to find one - thanks!

PM please.
 
The guy you want to ask about this is member "Aero426" on moparts. If anyone would know if would be him.
 
Suppose it is not a distributor at all? Most mechanical tack drives were in Magneto's old school racing many be.
 
Talked to the guy that worked on it in 1969. Prestolite made it, but not in the thousands, like production units.
A few hundred... But all I need is one. :3gears:
 
Can anyone help identify this RB engine distributor??
First, sorry for the poor photo, but that's as good as it gets...

It appears to be cast, has a tach drive, single wire. Photo is from early 1970.
Notice it has a normal look to it by the tan cap, but is wider near the bottom.

Could it be some earlier '60s housing? Perhaps Chrysler Marine application? Heavy duty truck??

Opinions welcome. If I can find out what it is, I then have to locate one, or at least a housing like it.

Thanks!View attachment 130354
This is on E-Bay, link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/chrysler-do...-point-tach-distributor-2098313-/221819098982
 
Just looked at the link. The ebay dist. is a stock vacuum advance, tach drive unit.

It does not have the wider housing and is not electronic... Man, I WISH it was the one... :icon_cry:
 
I worked on boats in the late 70's to early 80's....lots of marine chrysler engines had distributors with tach drives and no vac advance....
 
I worked on boats in the late 70's to early 80's....lots of marine chrysler engines had distributors with tach drives and no vac advance....

YUP. Vac advance is for street fuel economy. No place on a race car...
 
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