<VV> Electronic ignition choices

[Bryan Blackwell]

I have used both 1 and 2, they both worked quite well.  The two major  
advantages to the conversions to my mind are getting rid of points and  
distributor wear, basically the system becomes like a new car.  Plugs  
seem to last longer too because the consistent spark helps keep them  
from loading in the first place.  Don't expect any real improvement in  
performance over a proper set of points, but I find the cars start  
much more easily and consistently and idle better over extended  
periods.  Of course without points wear the top end is more consistent  
as well.

If you're building an engine for more performance, you may want to  
investigate other options, I have a page on my site that covers the  
common ones:

http://autoxer.skiblack.com/ignition.html

--Bryan

On Jan 21, 2010, at 9:27 PM, Charles McKinley wrote:

> 1. Crane light-diode system, appears to be more complicated and a bit
> more expensive than the others;
> 2. Ignitor magnetic system, cheapest and simplest of the three;
> 3. Ignitor II magnetic system, pretty simple but almost same price as
> Crane.
>
> The magnetic principle has a lot of appeal from a reliability
> standpoint. Does that actually work out in practice?