Ford Mustang: Bronze Distributor Gears revisted - Just for Winze

just curious, can you install a bronze gear on a stock distributor, or do you
need an aftermarket like msd or accel?
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tim
95 mustang gt 5spd

Yes. They have bronze gears for just about every distributor ever made. It's
cheap insurance.

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Gary

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"If some is good, more is better, and too much is just right".

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GEB, I'll still use a steel gear with my steel roller cam just like
ford did on every 5.0 mustang engine from 85-95.

>GEB, I'll still use a steel gear with my steel roller cam just like 

Amen. I'll second that.

Don W

You too can do as you wish, but don't complain when you have to change the
cam, because the gear on the cam either wears out or breaks. As I told
Winze, it's "Cheap Insurance". I look at it this way, if Jeg's and summit
say that, there has to be a reason, and from a racers standpoint, I can see
why they recommend it. There's a lot of things Ford done, that isn't exactly
the right way to do things. As was mentioned many times, the bean counters
dictate how the cars are built, not the engineers.

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The first thing that's going to happen is the engine will stop
running, second thing that's going to happen is I'm going to say
"Damn" I should have used a steel distributor gear! If steel is good
enough for Ford and 100,000 + miles without a problem, it's good
enough for me also.

By your response, I'm assuming you've never seen a distributor freeze up,
and the results of that. So answer this question, which would you sooner
have break, should the distributor freeze up, the distributor gear, or the
gear on the cam? Do you have any idea what the difference in price between a
new cam or distributor gear, and the cost of replacing each? And in the
event that one or the other does break, which do you want getting in your
oil, and possibly through your motor, steel or bronze? Winze, you also need
to understand Ford's thinking. If either one is going to break, THEY want
the most expensive part to break, and the part that the average car owner
won't want to try and replace themselves, which means more money for their
service departments. As I told you to do the last time we had this debate,
call any shop that builds high performance motors, and ask them what they
recommend. I doubt you even done that. I guess the old saying you can't
teach an old dog new tricks is true! At least you have proven it to me.

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I recommend a steel distributor with a steel roller cam and I don't
think that Ford builds cars/engines to tear up just to keep it's
service departments busy.
FWIW old dogs can learn new tricks if they have a good teacher.