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| RE: Pertronix ignition |
| By gerry - 02/21/2001 11:20:05 AM; IP 208.217.67.247 |
The problem with ignitions, particularly point triggered, is that they don't have 100 percent success in actually initiating or sustaining combustion. What you want in improving your system is to increase the probability that your mixture will fire and the flame will propagate. Electronic triggers...optical, magnetic, or Hall effect give you a much-improved chance that there will be a field collapse in the coil. Whatever happens after that is subject to your entire ignition system capability. So, yes, a non-mechanical trigger such as the Pertronix will improve the chance that there will be a field collapse and if everything else is in order, a combustion event. The more you improve the chance that any or all cylinders will fire will improve power and economy. There will always be random misfires, but better ignition systems reduce the amount of random misfire.
If you really want to vastly improve your system, look into the Jacobs system. It feedsback the status of the combustion event and will continue to hit the plug until it either reads a good fire or the event has passed and tries again the next go around.
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