[DeTomaso] Electronic Ignition

[JDeRyke at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/26/07 3:41:43 PM, dbakker at arrayasolutions.com writes:

<< Anyone have any recommendations to convert over to electronic ignition? >>

FWIW David,  I converted 3 years ago to a stock Ford 460 distributor, coil 
and Duraspark ll brainbox, and am satisfied. This is a cheap drop-in 'factory' 
conversion sold by all the Pantera vendors that uses the identical cast-iron 
distributor drive gear as a 351-C (compatible with cast iron cams), and needs 
the same double- pinning of the gear as old stock distributors as well as all 
the super-wow-wow 'racing' distributors. 
Note- ANY electronic ignition system can be made to fail. But failures with 
Duraspark 2s seem to be restricted to the brainbox ($39) and coil ($26), and 
those are available anywhere, anytime in the U.S at Kragens, Pep Boyz and other 
generic car-parts stores as well as most wrecking yards. They're so cheap, I 
simply carry a spare. And since Ford made billions of them, there was actually 
some durability testing done, not just by customers, as with the 
speed-shop-specials. 
The Duraspark distributors & pickups seem bulletproof. I recently modified my 
system a little, using a stock Ford TFE coil running with the Duraspark 
distributor, per JC Christian's recommendation. Duraspark coils are oil-filled and 
can overheat & short if you do something silly, while the solid-epoxy 
insulation on the later coil MAY be more robust & certainly delivers a hotter spark, 
at the same cost as the oil-insulated coils.  Good luck- J DeRyke
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