Petronix ignition question

rp23g7 said
I replaced everything following the instructions. and started it up, it started fine, but ran like crud.

So i checked the timing, plugged the advance......ummmmm hello where is the mark? It was way advanced all of a sudden. I thought i had put the timing light on No 3 cylinder, checked it twice, No. 1.

So i set it to around 15 btdc, and it ran like crud still, messed around and finally got it to run passably around 0 degrees, so i drove it, pinged all to heck.

I thought i had put it in 180 off, but the little plate can only go in one way. I messed with it for a bit and finally gave up and put the points back in.

when wireing in an ignitor u have to give it direct battery voltage. when i flip the ballast resisitor over u can see which pins go to what, just direct connect those. for the "single" style resisitors u just put them right together and then hook hook the ignitor right to the coil! thats what i did.

if u run the ballast the ignitor may not get enough voltage and strange things happen