anybody used procomp? all i know about them is they cost about half what msd does. its a street(90%) race(10%) car but i really don't want to buy junk just to save money. if it was going to be a street leagal RACECAR msd would be a no brainer. please help! jack
I've used a lot of Procomp parts, mainly on my old GMs, with no complaints. Early on they had some issues with their distributors, but I hear that's long since been corrected. My impression is simply that they're a new-ish company trying to get their foot in the door of a market where people are big on name brands, and so they do it by being the cheapest. Their parts are made overseas, but it's an Australian company so it's not like the parts are made in Thailand by people who have never even seen anything with more than four cylinders. What parts of theirs I've held in my hands were quality parts.
Actually they are this is the company http://www.procompelectronics.com/ Procomp is out of California the company is Procomp electronics they are primarily an import company. 90% of their stuff is made by some 9 year old in a sweat shop, and whats even worse you can get the same stuff without the Procomp name and get it even cheaper on Evilbay. The Procomp heads that came from Australia came from a different company they were bought from the manufacturer as a generic head, the heads were then sold under both the Procomp name and the "Superflow" name...like I said Procomp is primarily a import company not a manufacturer. Now they are just sold under the Procomp Electronics brand name. You can see what Edelbrock thinks about them http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-cacdce/case_no-2:2008cv01915/case_id-411398/ or MSD's thoughts http://www.msdignition.com/forum/archive/index.php?t-7110.html
Eh, so they got sued for ripping off ther companies' designs, and probably deserved it. I've seen those Procomp "MSD" boxes and they definitely were trying a little too hard to look like 6al's. (Except of course they expanded the features - you could dial in the rev limiter instead of buying pills for it) But either way, like I said, every part of theirs I've actually looked at with my own eyes seemed like a quality part, shady company or not. The moral question is another matter. Their parts are cheaper because whoever built it isn't being paid American wages. If I always had the money to buy American I would, but when I don't, and I need a part or a tool, it becomes a question of whether I'll buy the cheap one or buy nothing. But if what JLB is asking is simply "is this distributor a piece of junk because it's Procomp" I'm still gonna say probably not based on my observations.
"Their parts are cheaper because whoever built it isn't being paid American wages. If I always had the money to buy American I would, but when I don't, and I need a part or a tool, it becomes a question of whether I'll buy the cheap one or buy nothing." Hmm there seems to be an interesting story here I wont buy parts from American companies because I am going to go the cheap route and deal with a somewhat sketchy quality control because I cant get a good job here in America because nobody will buy American products.......... If you dont believe me on the quality google it there are many complaints on many different forums about the quality of their products and the lack of support. You might get a good one that will last 30 years like your original ford distributor did but from what I have seen especially from their thin wall cast heads from both an engineers and a machinists point of view you can buy them if you want, I wont. I personally like the American made Accel I got off of Ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Acce...1QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em118Q2el1247 that and I figure I am atleast supporting myself in one means or another even if I did not directly make those components.
Why does something have to be American made to have good quality control? And you assume a little to much about me. I have an excellent job. Good enough that I can choose to let my wife stay home and raise my son instead of sending her to work and him to a daycare. That choice is the reason my paycheck is spread thinly, not my lack of good employment.
I personally run the MSD and ACELL products because i cant take a chance on a timing fart. 8 PSI of BOOST and 150 shot of spray wont tolerate a timing fart. I have saw some other products (no names mentioned) not be exact at rpm or at idle. With a naturally aspirated low compression engine it wouldn't pose much of a problem, But add BOOST and N20 and you may have a problem
Under boost and/or nitrous, or even if I was going to do any marginally serious bracket racing, I'd probably say the same thing.
If you're on a budget, run a Duraspark distributor with one of the new Street Fire boxes from MSD. Multi-spark, CD, all digital, adjustable rev-limiter. Made in USA at the MSD factory. You can get a Street Fire CD Ignition box and a Blaster SS Coil for $134 at Competition Products. http://competitionproducts.com/prodinfo.asp?number=MSD5520
El Paso, Texas. The boxes, distributors, wires, magnetos, etc Some of the street coils are made in Mexico and China now. The HVC coils are made in-house.
