No, it's a non-transistor car, it doesn't get anything modern. Running an occasional nine in a street driven car with only mid 60s technology is so much damn fun, that I don't care whether or not I could make it "better" with newer parts.

Squirrel I applaud you for having the courage to go forward with low -tech but proven choices to hot rodding. I am a big fan myself. If you have deep enough pockets and a large circle of friends, most can accomplish what they want to get done. My current project has many low-tech components and ideas in it. High -tech is great and it sells, but your ingenuity is the spirit of this sport and others. My 70's era big block Nova also ran its fastest times in the 9's with an old Mallory dual point distributor that looked ancient even then. Better than the Hayes Stinger electronic ignition introduced back then. Stick with it! Bill

Something to be said for old school reliability. My friends with modern fuel injected engines have all kinds of trouble with sensors, injectors and other electronic stuff going bad while mine has been stone reliable since it was built.

The Crane boxes where very popular in Nascar and NHRA Prostock,. They even made an analog version just for Nascar because Nascar didn't want anything digital on the cars. Eventually Nascar and NHRA required a specific secured Msd box so that nobody could modify it. Wonder how much Msd had to pay Nhra and Nascar to get that rule. That was pretty much the end of Crane Ignition.

It occurs to me that Daytona Sensors looks like it could be updated Crane. Wonder if they bought out Crane Ignition and continued to develope it with new features.

I have had a New Crane system complete with their 3 step box and retard box sitting on a shelf for almost twenty years. The plan was to put it on when the chrome box failed. The chrome box never failed.

I have the understanding that the Crane engineer is the same guy that now runs/develops Daytona Sensor products. Not sure how true that is, but have been told that by a few in the business.

Absolutely! If you're not trying to set the world on fire w/ every ounce of tuning capability out there, the old stuff is just better quality in my opinion.
I just got a box full of good used, but older, MSD stuff yesterday, lol.

Did you end up going with an older 7 series box?

No. I'm still trying to make the digital box work. Have a few things to try/test. If not, I'm going back to the old analog 6AL w/ another retard box.

My favorite box was the Mallory digital 6. It had everything built in with push buttons for the price of a 6AL. Sadly it was dropped several years ago and those boxes are like unicorns now.

I scraped the MSD and went to Daytona Sensors and could not be happier.

Same here, been using that setup for years.