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On a single cylinder Maytag, the governor is tied into the points, and keeps the engine from firing when the governor kicks in. So yes, you could change the ignition over, and have an engine which fires on every rotation. I'd be scared to be around it, though. I imagine that it would keep picking up speed until parts began to fly off. Now, for the downside of converting kick start engines, to solid state ignition. That type of ignition depends on fast rotation of the flywheel, to have enough fire to cause a spark at the sparkplug. It will work fine on an engine with a rope pull starter, or an electric starter, because the flywheel is spinning fast when you start the engine. On a kickstart engine, kicking the starter pedal will not rotate the flywheel fast enough to cause the ignition to fire. I have been through this with a kickstart Briggs engine. My engine had a pulley on one end of the crankshaft, and I could start the engine by wrapping a rope around this pulley, and giving it a good yank, but the engine could not be started with the kickstarter.
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