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ATTENTION!!!...OWNERS OF CARBURETTORED FERRARIS

Programmable Digital Ignition (BSMpdi)

• Do you want to improve your car’s acceleration?
• Do you want better economy?
• Do you want a smoother idle?
• Do you want better starting and reliability?
• Do you want lower service costs?
• Do you want your car to pass exhaust emission tests?
  

All the above can be achieved simply by installing a state-of-the-art Black Stallion Motors programmable digital ignition system (BSMpdi). The system is easy to install or BSM can install it for you.

Why pdi?
BSMpdi systems allow the inefficient contact points used in older distributors to be dispensed with and allow a car’s ignition advance curve to be optimised to extract the best performance from every individual engine. Reliability, performance and economy are all improved while maintenance and exhaust emissions are reduced.

Which Ferraris?
Since introducing BSMpdi systems to the marketplace two years ago, Black Stallion Motors has developed pdi systems for and fitted systems to the following carburettored Ferraris: V8s (308 models), V6s (206, 246), V12s (single or twin cam models 275, 330, 365) and Flat 12s (365, 512). Click for images of installation in V8, V6, V12 or Flat 12. BSM has also developed and fitted similar systems to carburettored Jaguars, Aston Martins, Fords and Chevs.

How does it work?
Maximum performance and efficiency in an engine relies heavily on the accuracy of ignition. Regardless of how contact points are set up, they often give a spark that’s only within ±5º of the optimum crankshaft position, even in a good distributor. In a BSMpdi system the spark is triggered electronically, allowing the spark to be delivered at precisely the right time every time.
With a BSMpdi, a distributor’s advance curve can be easily modified to suit the characteristics unique to every engine and to get better performance from today’s fuels.
In our experience, older engines running on today’s slow burning fuels can handle more advance at low revs, and modification of the advance curve can significantly improve torque at low revs.
At BSM we preprogram each system with two advance curves - one designed as a performance curve, the other as an emissions curve. A toggle switch installed in the car allows switching between curves. To maximise the benefits available from a BSMpdi we putting the car on a dynomometer, at which time the advance curves can be fine tuned and reprogrammed quite easily, using a PC).

What’s in a kit?

• A replacement distributor turned from solid aluminium and made to look like a period item fitted with sealed bearings for the drive shaft, to guarantee precision and durability fitted with a Bosch cap and Siemens hall sensor (Original distributors can be converted to run with the BSMpdi, if preferred)
  High energy coil
• Race proven ignition leads
• Professionally made wiring looms and programming CD
• Heat and shock resistant ignition controller
• Professionally written instructions for installation and programming
  

What else?
Each BSMpdi kit:

• is precision engineered in Australia
• is made from the highest quality materials
• is fully tested before dispatch
• comes with a warranty
• comes with BSM service support and parts backup
  

What does it cost?
Even if you can locate the necessary parts to rebuild an older distributor, the rebuild is likely to cost considerably more than a complete BSMpdi system.

Overseas customers can source BSMpdi systems through Superformance in the UK (see www.superformance.com.uk) and Carobou Engineering in the USA (see www.carobou.com).

BSMpdi V8 installation
BSMpdi V6 installation
BSMpdi V12 installation
BSMpdi FLAT 12 installation