thats why I ran a #12 standed wire in the ballest shell with the stock ends solderd on

to hide the fact it was bypassed in the ballest shell

then I got rid of the old point style volt reg and used a new replacement style soild state vr and solved the prob with the alt dis charging at idle speed

stoped the alt gauge from jumping around and was steady after that

and the pertronix unit works better with a full 12volt and the matching coil

never had a problem with the old 68 1 wire alt/charging system or the points ignition system after those 2 conversions

I swap out the elect ecu crap on all of my smoggers and drop in the points dist with a pertronix coversion in it,leaves everything wired up and in place,cant tell exept for the 2 wires from the dist right to the coil

the points dist has a better adv curve stock as well for a little added help in a smogger,IMO

thats my hickabilly shade tree fix anyways

oh!,I ran the 68 with the ballest and it cut the 12volt back to seven or so,ran it 4 yrs that way and never had a problem with it,but it was lazy and sluggish.....but when I swaped it to a full 12 volt I could feel it in the seat of the pants and by the way it started first hit

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