Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: HEI Upgrade-worthwhile?

Posted by Bob on November 19, 2007 at 17:06:34 from (69.178.229.154):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: HEI Upgrade-worthwhile? posted by Jon Hagen on November 19, 2007 at 16:17:43:

Jon,

Customer's Ford L700 had a cab fire, and messed up the EI wiring (it had factory Dorf EI). He was only going to use it around the farm, and wanted to fix it as easily as possible.

(Ford, just for fun, had originally mounted the module INSIDE the cab, behind the passenger seat, and the wiring from the distributor all the way back to behind the pasenger seat was involved in the cab fire.)

I talked him into a special-order Pertronix unit that would replace the pickup coil in the OEM Ford distributor.

It was a Ignitor II unit, the one that's supposed to fire "HOT" low impedance coils safely.

This would operate with just one "hot" wire from the igntion switch to the coil/Pertronix unit, amking wiring SIMPLE, compared to repairing the whole burned mess.

It took quite a while for the supplier to get the special unit ordered in.

I installed it, and it worked GREAT for a day or two, then dropped dead at the height of the harvest rush.

Rather than wait to go through channels to get a unit under warranty (who needed it in a couple of weeks, AFTER harvest?) I tossed the Ignitor II in the trash, put the Ford pickup coil back in, and took a GM HEI module and mounted it to an aluminum heatsink an attached it to the coil bracket, and connected it to the Ford pickup coil.

It runs great, and has never wimpered.

MUCH cheaper than the "brand X" unit, too!

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