Pertronix Distributor

[John Green]

Anyone have experience with converting to this distributor? Pegasus has it for under $300.
Not knowing how old my current dizzy is it more logical to go this route rather than converting the old dizzy to electronic?
Thanks in advance for looking.

[hdsporty1988]

John, I've been running Pertronix products for years in all my classic cars with no problems. Unless your distributor is worn, I would just install the kit to convert. The key to running Pertronix is to also install the matching coil. Not doing to so will result in failure of the unit.

[bassracer]

I would suggest against it, and I think a thorough search will return many similar stories of unexpected pertronix failures on race cars. Works in the garage/morning warmup, dead when pulling to grid.

On my kent I received the car with pertronix ii distributor already fitted. After many failures with the ignitor, smart people suggested I switch to the XR700 optical triggered ignition. I was unsuccessful finding a donor bosch housing, so I attempted to retrofit the XR700 into the pertronix dizzy. It worked fantastic and was one of the best things I ever did. Post 16 in this thread shows pictures of the completed swap. Pertronix unhappiness (apexspeed.com). I matched it with an epoxy filled pertronix coil of appropriate resistance (NOT the same as the Pertronix ignitor match).

So my vote would be the FAST XR700