Stromberg E fire reviews

[34fordy]

I did a search as KiWi US suggested below and realize this has been flogged to death before. Thank you. I had no intention of buying one but was just curious why some folks love them and others cannot get them to work properly.

[KiWinUS]

Have you done a search here on fordbarn to answer your question? It’s been brought up several times.

[hueyhoolihan]

Originally Posted by 34fordy

I did a search as KiWi US suggested below and realize this has been flogged to death before. Thank you. I had no intention of buying one but was just curious why some folks love them and others cannot get them to work properly.

i've got one and never got it to work properly (6v pos), or more accurately never could get the car started with it in the car. and i griped about it plenty. as time passes though, i'm wondering if it has to do with the ballast resistor or lack thereof.

as AFAIK, solid state circuitry is very sensitive to voltage requirements. and it's my understanding that a ballast resistor, if in fact one exists at all, in the line from the ignition toggle to the coil may or may not modify the nominal voltage from the battery to the coil at various stages during starting and running of the engine. and there's too much conflicting information about it on the net, such that, for me to make use of.

so i must test ballast resistor issues with my trusty multimeter in various and sundry ways for me to come to any conclusions WRT the amount of voltage my coil is receiving. not insurmountable, but more tedious than it could be if i could be confident WRT voltage at the coil under various conditions in a 6v positive ground system. but like a birdsnest in a bait casting reel, once it's really messed up, there's nothing for it but to cut it out, toss the rest of the line away and throw a new spool on. so that's what i'll do....one of these days.

[OHV DeLuxe]

I would never spend my money on any of the electronic options available today, i rebuild distributors and have had quite a few frustrated people contacting me about problems with the E-fire especially, they all end up with a proper points distributor and had never had any of them returned.

[ndnchf]

FWIW. my '35 Fordor has one, it was on it when I bought the car 3+ years ago. I was a little leery of it, but it works flawlessly.

[ssffnomad]

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This past year , purchased a 12 V E-Fire from Millworks.
Kit had Dist, Coil & Wires.
We Love it

[drfromnc]

My E-fire has worked flawlessly on my newly built project (750 miles on the odometer) with a flathead running on 12v system. I will say all wiring is new too. I guess time will tell.

And on a side note: I see H&H flatheads uses a bunch of the E-fires on their builds. At least from the Facebook shorts of Mike firing up one. That’s all I’ve seen

[busmania]

Love my e fire. I switched to a stock crab distributor because I was bored (I don’t remember the real reason I decided to try to go stock….probably because any time I had any issue with my engine, everyone blamed the efire…yet the problem has never been the efire) and I see no difference. I’ll put my efire back on when stock starts to give me problems. I kinda secretly think my engine runs better with the efire.