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States it's a electronic ignition system. I'm confused (again)
They sell the fuel line for 25+/-

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Yes they are both electronic ign. The pertronix combines the "dist pickup" and the "ECU" into one mini electronic box that fits inside the dist where the points once resided. 2 wires from it out to the coil (-) and (+) primary terminals & I believe you connect the ign1 (run) blue wire switched 12V and the brown wire ign2 (crank) wires together & run them to the coil positive primary terminal completely eliminating/bypassing the ballast resistor & with no resistor is why you need the special Pertronix coil, that & it's likely hotter

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Reliability of the pertronix system good?

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I've only heard of a very few failures with it. I'm about to pull the trigger on a Pertronix 3 as an eBay seller is gonna discount me a slight bit. It (the 3 system) has a multispark incorporated into that minibox

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Reliability of the pertronix system good? Sounds like the ticket for stock appearing! I like the idea of modifying the ballast resistor to supply full 12 volts without changing its appearance. Nice

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http://www.carcraft.com/techarticles/1311_convert_a_ford_or_chrysler_ignition_to_gm_hei/

with pictures.

I think price is a bit of a wash. pertronix vs the hei conversion.
I prefer petronix.
it literally was the easiest mod I ever made to a distributer.
took 10 min. all the other swaps or replacments always made me reindex the thing so it would fire up the first time.
that was a drop in a fired right up.

never ran one for more than 5 years, but it was still running when I got rid of the motor.

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Andrew,

Thanks for that link!

I started out reading this passively but the more I read the more intrigued I am. The article (and this topic), however raises a couple questions:
1. In the article, They say the old oil filled coils must be mounted vertically or they will overheat. Nearly every stock app I can think of has the coil mounted horizontally on the engine. What's up with that??
2. Just so I'm clear, this system (in the link) does eliminate the stock ECU; yes? So those wires connecting it are the ones used to connect to the GM thingy?
3. (okay one more) On the Pertronix system, there appears to be only a couple wires that will come out of the distributor and connect to the coil. If this system also eliminates the ECU, what happens to all the wires (5, iirc) that are connected to it? Are they the same ones that connect to the coil and dist. so they are eliminated as well?

Thanks,
Scott

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http://www.carcraft.com/techarticles/1311_convert_a_ford_or_chrysler_ignition_to_gm_hei/

with pictures.

I think price is a bit of a wash. pertronix vs the hei conversion.
I prefer petronix.
it literally was the easiest mod I ever made to a distributer.
took 10 min. all the other swaps or replacments always made me reindex the thing so it would fire up the first time.
that was a drop in a fired right up.

never ran one for more than 5 years, but it was still running when I got rid of the motor.

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Andrew,

Thanks for that link!

I started out reading this passively but the more I read the more intrigued I am. The article (and this topic), however raises a couple questions:
1. In the article, They say the old oil filled coils must be mounted vertically or they will overheat. Nearly every stock app I can think of has the coil mounted horizontally on the engine. What's up with that??
2. Just so I'm clear, this system (in the link) does eliminate the stock ECU; yes? So those wires connecting it are the ones used to connect to the GM thingy?
3. (okay one more) On the Pertronix system, there appears to be only a couple wires that will come out of the distributor and connect to the coil. If this system also eliminates the ECU, what happens to all the wires (5, iirc) that are connected to it? Are they the same ones that connect to the coil and dist. so they are eliminated as well?

Thanks,
Scott

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