So true its worth double posting!
Look at the race results and mpg cars obtained with the mighty power of points. With a correct curve and good engine design the spark to get a flame kernal to allow combustion doesn't need to be some super duper fireworks show.
and I've posted this before but I'll do it again. For racing at higher rpm the right curve for an electronic ignition has to take into account the slew rate. Long before internet my coworker who had been running stock eliminator had learned this the hard way when he removed the secondary spring from the Direct Connection tach drive distributor.
Tuner described the same lesson here except it was with a GM.
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A-B-A-B it was faster with the GM dual-points distributor, even though the spark energy was higher with the electronic, a GM Magna-Pulse, and the electronic had the same “curve” except for the retard after the “total” was reached at 2500. Jenkins book “The Small Block Chevrolet Racing Engine” details the high-RPM curve and explains his reasoning"
