Electronic Ignition, WHAT TO USE Options

[BarberDave]

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o.k., I have a newly rebuilt dizzy for my F,I, conversion. the only trouble is it still has points. I have Petroix (sp) in the one i have on my 914 with a carb now. QUES. is which electronic ignition to buy ?What is your experience?
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[ArtechnikA]

I have used the Crane pieces with success also. My issue: if something goes wrong with a MSD.. I can buy them off the shelf at just about ANY FLAPS. I always have to order the Crane.

Ahh who cares.. we will have multi coil multi spark setup soon with programmable injection which will do away with all this crap.

this is one advantage of being over here on this coast - fast cheap shipping from Summit!

OTOH - like a lot of warranty / insurance issues - the only unit i've -had- to replace is the MSD, twice. the VW (Fairchild) units never failed, and Darryl Vittone has sparked some incredible HP from very radical engines with them. the Jacobs looked interesting but it looked like you need to go with "the whole system" from them and i didn't think i wanted to do that (even though that's exactly what i wound up doing with the Crane stuff - except for the Magencor plug wires ...). the Hi-6 hasn't failed (yet) and i really like the diagnostic/trigger LED, the programmable retard controller, and the switch-selectable rev-limit setting. (and if you -had- to, you could connect a MSD-6 where the HI-6 is, in but a few minutes. power, ground, trigger, tach out, cylinder-select, ta da...)

the NASCAR guys seem to love the MSD units, but even they use 2 per car (failure rate issues?) and i don't think they're using MSD-6AL's like you can get at the FLAPS.

i'm glad (reliability, ability to tie down the dizzy cap) to stay with the Crane for the moment, but i'd be glad to go to a more flexible programmable setup if i'm able to dedicate a car to track use. even though what i've got feels like it's working fine, i think there are advance-curve issues, and i'm not equipped to be playing with weights and springs.