kinda wrong that... i have to agree.
its rife... lots of companies play on the fact nobody questions any advertising claim
but same sales model used by Hemi Performance in Australia. Their HPI V1 ignition was a rebuilt standard dizzy, with an HEI module from the US (not used in Oz) clamped to the side, in a fancy heat sink (2 anodised pices of ally) and stickered up. you were paying $450+ for one of them in 2003 and the modules were NAPA /ECHLIN or some such.
i spotted what it was, and made my own $25
HPI revison 2 on their website is now a generic chinese HEI distributor and HEI coil with blue leads for $399!! you could do the same with a bosch HEI module off a Holden and your standard kit.
presume the FBO cost more than $60 when new (or i should say more than the cost of a top of the range sticker on a generic HEI module, like we buy today) and they got found out.
Later FBO units or at least the broken one i opened up followed the orange box route . heat sink on the front etc...
sneaky sneaky sneaky
i didn't bother with one myself, I spoke with their UK sales agent, must be 15 years ago, and he had no clue how a coil worked, seemed to think if your stopped using 1000s of turns of copper wire in your coil and just used two fat chunks of copper, the coil would never burn out, which to give him some credit is true, but it would not function as a coil..or indeed anything else...
Lost a sale for a new black igntion box there, he did. I made my excuses and left his stall.
Dave
