earlier this year i needed to make yet another ignition upgrade.and due to my new ignition requirements i started having falures ,rotors melting and severe cross firing under the cap .now it was not the fault of the distributer but more what i was doing with it.one thing i needed to do was decrease staic under the cap as well as help prevent crossfire by internal desighn and size of rotor and cap.
both msd and pertronics use the same size ford cap and rotor? may be wrong on the actual domestic cross over.but anyway the cap is vented and the cap and rotor are well desighned for crossfire prevention.i always like to test products and desided to give the pertronics a try instead of the msd .it is a well buildt unit and very easy to wire ,i have had no more rotor melting or crossfiring under the cap issues and found it adjustabilty excellent and timing stability is dead on.
a big bonus is the price at cip is $186.00 vs over $300 for a msd.plus with the pertronics you don't need a ignition box as it will work with a stock coil and allow you to upgrade to a cdi box later ,not bad if you have a cdi box falure on the road.also something i found out ,there are 2 versions igniter 1 and igniter 2 .
if you are going to run a cdi box with the pertronics now or later the cdi box will not use the feature of the igniter 2 unit as it only needs a reference input so you can save the dollars and get the igniter 1 unit .there are many options for leads and many are good ,at present i run taylor at 50 ohms a foot but will switch to crane leads at less that 25 ohms per foot.mentioned earlier mallory makes excellent ignition boxes ,but my favorite is crane ignition products ,seams no mater how hard i try i cant hurt it.
