MAD electrical upgrade for 1973 Dart

crj1968 said
Just did mine this weekend.. I just put both lugs on the ammeter on one post. and got rid of the firewall connections. I havent ran the alt direct to the starter relay yet.

Anyway I am running a MSD 6al also, Mine is being triggered by a unilite so it requires the ballast resistor. MSD has a lot of drawings out there for how to wire it up depending on your distributor. Likely your ballast was hot due to whatever short happened at the firewall or ignition switch.
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Okay thanks, I wasn't sure if the Balast resistor was normally hot. I really appreciate the replies on this as I am pretty poor at electrical/wiring. The MSD system was in the car when I got it but I will try to compare the wiring to their website. I also need to ID the distributer.