interesting car craft article this month on GM modules

Now before you go all crazy over me talkin Generic Mortars, there was a carcraft article about converting your mopar or ford electronic distributor to run a GM HEI module. This isnt a DUI type distrubuter for mopar or ford with the big blocky cap, rather its a way to use the small GM solid state 4 spade module to run a ford or mopar stock electronic distributer, instead of using the big blocky spark boxes both are known for. This will clean up the engine compartment. Theres even a really neat billet aluminum mount for it on the mopar distributer somebody online makes for a few dollars.

Any advantage to doing this? Disadvantages,? Im not a purist, unless its a rare numbers car. In my current buildup am into bang for the buck. Will this work just as well or better than lets say a nicely setup mopar distributer with an orange box.

Id prefer to hide the unit, than to display a big honkin sparkbox, but will use the big honkin sparkbox if it has an advantage.

Lmk
Matt

Way more spark power than an orange box, and they can be installed under the dash if you want to hide them completely.