Always happy to see tips that can help people that have never had the fun of dealing with "points" style ignitions, you can't beat the electronic ignition. Great content as always.

Excellent detail on why you are upgrading the ignition, thanks for explaining.

Excelente video buddy I like the way you brake everything down please make a video of installing the Ignition distributor and timing gotta save them birds 🐦 👍

Great work, your project is really coming together.

Pontiac had factory Electronic ignition long before HEI starting in 1963 with transistorized ignition. They were the first division before Chevrolet started using it in 64 in the Corvette

Hi John, Glade you did this one. Keep us up on how this unit holds up over time. I am a old Delco points guy for all my GM cars as I still use a dwell meter and found out the old Delco points with the condenser screw on them have the strongest spring tension on the contact point so you can top out rpm much higher than with Blue strek or Standard brand points. ( I got a part # for them in my glove box but can't get to it now.) I do run HEIs in my SBC Chevy's but still got points in my Bird. Question? did you really drop the Dist on the FENDER !!! of a 400 hood car !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG your killin me here son with the Homer Simson move ! Duuuoooooh . If you heard a noise after that happened, that was my nuts hittin the floor ! Firebird fenders make tearable work benches, they get enough of that on the side of the road.

The module in that unit is the old Mallory unilite trigger design. It is VERY voltage sensitive!!!!!!! 7.2 to 9 volts is what the Mallory unit liked. Once you get the pumpkin together, check the voltage for spikes outside that range when the lights, heater or radio are on/off. It will never kill a module at home……. Always at the cruise in or car show. It does also like a coil that is specifically for an “ electronic “ trigger. It will overheat and boil a points coil.

I put an HFI distributor on my firebird but haven't tried it yet. I wish I had known about that kit you used before I bought it. It would have been much cheaper. The HFI is much bigger than the original distributor but still has enough clearance to the firewall.

Good video. So does it work?

Nice, ever consider MSD? (side note great shirt, I heard they may go on tour if all works out and last night I was able to see WASP at the Paramount)

hope that thing works. I bought a new small HEI distributer and cap with coil from a company on ebay, came with plug wires. Could not get fire with it. Dunno what i did wrong but I think wasn't wired correctly. Went back to the reg HEI distributer with big cap and have clearance issues with firewall but it runs. I think I am getting some engine vibration from the distributer cap making contact with the fire wall.

Have you ever done a vid on removing chrome trim on exterior of car?

did you make that wood arrowhead hanging on your wall?

Do you have the link or part number for this?