When did your ignition module fail?

kiss said

Not to bash on MP electronic ignition because the OEM boxes are great, but this is why I switched to HEI. I got sick of my aftermarket boxes failing. Had a couple of ballast resistors fail too.

OEM boxes are too hard to find so I gave up and went HEI.


Best to steer clear of FBO for anything other than their limiter plates. See this thread:

FBO Systems

It seems that their boxes are nothing more than HEI modules with a rev limiter built in. Greatly overpriced.

Click to expand...

Huh, hadn't seen that about FBO before. Had seen a few threads where people were happy/recommended their products, but that was years ago when I was doing the ignition on the Challenger. They did always seem pricey, which is why I don't have any of their stuff. I run a Pertronix plug and play billet distributor in my Challenger and a Mallory Unilite electronic distributor in my Duster. I did run the Challenger with the stock mopar electronic set up, which is when I had the issues with the orange boxes and switched to a chrome box before going to the Pertronix. Didn't have any issues with the chrome box before I went to the Pertronix, I didn't want to get into welding up the timing slots etc and my Challenger runs a ton of advance so that's why I went with the aftermarket set up. Ironically enough FBO wasn't selling the timing plates back then. The mopar set up is in my '71 GT now although it hasn't been on the road with it yet.