I put this here because where I got the info has a story to it...


Today I visited an old friend of an old friend who was selling an old Sun Distributor Machine for $250... looks like everything is in good working order and he has a box for EI (aka the pulse amplifier) that I can solder a setup together and get one working for this machine in a snap...

While looking it over it has a reference chart with stock distributor specs and dwell angles,etc... for lots of old model cars (Studebaker, Desoto...)...

So we rolled it over to the 1961 Valiant and it had a line for the stock distributor... then a line below it that read "QX-1 Hyperpak" and gave a set of specs for the advance and dwell angle....

I'll have more when the machine is in the garage and can take a pic of the equipment, and literature....


That's kind of 'cool'...

-D.idiot

QX-1 is a Chrysler vehicle model code:

Q = 1960
X = Valiant
1 = 6-cylinder

Starting in 1961 ("R"), the Valiant was given the "V" code which would remain with it until the end. The 1961 Valiants were RV-1 and the 1962s were SV-1, which is buried minutiæ here in North America, but in markets where cars were sold and known by their model numbers rather than their model years, such as Australia, you hear "Hey, look, it's an R-model Valiant" or "I still have my grandfather's S-model Valiant" rather than "Hey, look, it's a '62 Valiant!".

Why "X" instead of "V" for 1960? Well, it wouldn't be the only time Chrysler assigned a one-year-only model designator for the first year of a particular model. The first 1961 Dodge compact (Lancer) was RW-1, but in 1962 ("S") it became SL-1, and although the Dodge compact was renamed "Dart" for '63, it retained the "L" designator until the end in '76.

All this blather aside, I'd surely be interested in what the specs are!

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