Throwing my hands up on this ignition!

pishta said
Old Mallory. Rock solid. If you got an MSD like control box, you can listen closely to the box when the distributor triggers it, or drag the white wire off a ground and you should hear a high pitched squeak out of the control box, that's the transistor triggering ~6 times and you can hear it. That would tell you if the control box is actually sending the coil the CD signals. Whats the resistance of the coil? I know it doesnt like race type coils with their extreme resistance values.

Thank You pishta for giving me some input I can use.

Ok I'm sorry for rubbing some of you the wrong way, but if I just go ahead swap out a the ignition system because some doesn't like what I have and I still have the problem, then I've just wasted a lot of time and money. I'd like to make sure it's not some else first.

Let me give you all some context of what got me where I'm at now, so maybe you can understand better what I'm dealing with:

I did and engine swap from a warmed over 340 to a 400+ hp 410 while using the same ignition (a Chrome box stock distributor and a Accel coil ) I figure if it worked fine the 340 it should be ok with the 410. Well it didn't! After trying 4 different carbs (2 AFB's a brand new Street Demon and a new Double pumper) it still wouldn't idle and ran like crap. I even swap out the ECU Distributor and coil, with no improvement. My friend had a Mallory High Fire so I tried it and "like that" it ran great! I set out to find one these High Fires and they were not available, so I did a little research and come find out that it appears the Summit unit is made by the same people. It have seen good reviews for it so I bought one, and built a new engine harness and it ran great till it didn't. I swapped out the coil to a Petrolix and ran great again till it didn't. I can tell it's not getting spark because there's' an LED on the summit box that flashes when it does.