Bypassing Ballast Resistor / Installing Pertronix Ignition

is the pertronix an improvement over the stock mopar electronic distributor?
Is the mechanical advance adjustable on this conversion?
Pertronix makes several products for Mopars. The OP is installing a Pertronix Ignitor (pickup and coil driver) inside an OEM 1966 points distributor. Their original Ignitor (OP's?) still requires a ballast resistor. Sometimes such ballast is built into a new coil (apparently OP's), otherwise you need to keep the OEM ballast. The Ignitor II has "dwell control" so doesn't need (nor should have) a ballast (or ballasted-coil). Best with an aftermarket e-core coil. You can get a similar result using a GM HEI module and e-core coil (many posts) but that requires a later Mopar e-distributor to trigger and loses "factory look". The Ignitor III module is best since adds multi-spark and rev-limiter.

Post 13 talks about a Pertronix distributor, which is an option (expensive) and also loses the factory look.

Re Post 14, the Vreg gets full IGN voltage (upstream of ballast so not affected by its presence or lack). It regulates the alternator field to make IGN sensed the correct value (~14.3 VDC).