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Harley..... ..electronic ignitions are just like 12-volt conversions, (controversial) bandaides to real problem of engine condition. This is NOT to say they don't work, the drop-in module for the side-mount distributor is a neat trick. But I can replace the points every year in my eazy starting 6-volt 8N for many years for the cost of enny electronic ignition. ($5 points, $150 electronic, your call) Infact, my last set of points lasted 15-yrs. BIG WHOOPIE!!! There is NOTHING WRONG with electronic ignitions. I BUILT from scratch, my first transistorized electronic ignition in 1963. Used it in a '56-Dodge D-500 Hemi hot-rod. I knew the designer of the Delta MK-10 CD (capacitor discharge) HEL, we were fellow Television Station Engineers. Infact, I have one in my non-standard 165hp 1969 BMW 2002 with 385k miles on it. (yes, it goes like snott) Electronic ignitions are great for high compression, high RPM engines whose owners are mechanically challenged. They've been MANDATED by gov't smog bureaucrats. (part of their long-life, no-maintenance philosophy for the mechanical ignorant) Does your low compression (6:1), low RPM (2200max) flathead engine need electronic ignition. Well, maybe. Iff'n you want instant starting with NO MAINTENANCE on good condition engine, that'll work. But iff'n yer engine is tired, no amount of bandaides will make it an instant starter. Your $$$..... ..Dell, retired electronics engineer
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