There was a time when MSD stood for May Suddenly Die. I know some guys carried the stock parts with them so they could get home when the MSD failed.

The first time I ever took laps in a stock car, went maybe 15, and MSD went out. I bet I bought 10 boxes for 1 of my cars, before we got out of racing. I always had 2 extra boxes on the hauler. Looking back, I don't know why we never tried another brand?

Doesn't MSD own Race Pack as well? If so not good.

Actually, my 17 year old MSD distributor is still going! I sold the engine to my engine builder and he was really happy that it had USA made MSD distributor in it.

Jeff

The first MSD 6AL that I installed in Dust Off lasted a about a week once I started driving the car. The replacement 6AL has been working fine for a the past year and a half now.

MSD had to have loved this. You are among many many people. So why did they love it? Think about it, who else in this market could sell a product, it fails and people not only buy another one from them, but 10 or 11 in some cases. No wonder they never improved the design! Their sales would have plummeted had they improved the product to a degree that you didn't have to buy at least one backup. The NASCAR teams even had a backup under the dash to switch to. (For other reasons also). :G-Dub:

Anybody see the article in the latest Hot Rod about "knock offs". Some of the article was specific to MSD ignition boxes. I wonder how many of the failures were knock-offs?

I never saw the article, but it is common to do knockoff's in China. Here is an article on copycat towns. http://www.theworld.org/2013/05/china-copycat-towns/. Do a google image search and you see lot of copycat products.

As for MSD, according to their president of the MSD. http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/sh...=275621&page=6 only a few parts are made in China.

Jeff

Saw that artice. I wonder of knock off makers will step up their "copy cat" game now...

But it is a 3 year old post. So things may have changed. I'd like to see an update from MSD.