HEI stupid question

[69hurstolds]

Hope no confusion, but only a magneto is self-contained / self-sufficient.

Yes, yes he is.

 

[78Delta88]

Yes but he's a meanie poo poo man!

 

[78Delta88]

"Sigh, no G-body left here. I stalled around too long trying to figure out what I could possibly want to do with my '83 Malibu (Buick V6) that would satisfy the State of California, and it finally flunked smogcheck one too many times for me."…….....................…....................…..

Bring it over here, put a bad attitude SBC in it call it a 305, put a Holley Sniper on it, pass the goon squad test and be all good.

 

[Clone TIE Pilot]

My old 46 tractor used to have points which I converted it to electronic ignition over a decade ago. A lot of the classic tractor guys complain that modern points come with really crappy Chinese condensers that frequently fail.

 

[spongbob]

i ask cuz i follow someone who loves points over HEI, a few yrs back i had a alt failure, car wouldn't start and i mean dead alt and not enough battery power to kik the starter. flatbed guy put a battery pack to it to get it on ramp truck, and @end of driveeway got it into garage and i think was driven to a shop that was bout 2 miles down the rd in following days.

also just wanna note my disaproval of gbody forum tag of master mechanic cuz i am last thing of such. i been thru a few things and understand a few things now having done 2 montes in last 25 yrs. meaning dealing with ordering parts and delegating work as a crippled. yeah i know a few things but i don't know all like when comes to cams? lol i will sit that out however if i had to know bout em i would do the work to understand. 4 yrs ago i knew nothing bout tire & wheel sizing till i had to learn for my own situation, had to learn factory sizing 1st.

As far as I know deusenburgs had magnetos and cars as such .people used to push or roll cars off to get the generators or altonator to run the coils ..cars useing point type ignition systems other then magneto like delco Eclin Ford Motorcraft ect the points do not use power they simply break the current ( 12v) this causes the magnetic charge to fold up( in the coil primary winding) at that millisecond"that drives the voltage up in the secondary winding and the spark is timed by the dustributor cam breaking the breaker points proceeds to the rotar button which selectively positions its self near to a terminal inside the distributor cap..simular parts of both magnitoes and point type distributors are points & camber cam, and dustributor caps and wires a coil of sorts, retired buttons and wires the hei dustributor has the same except the ignition module chip works as breaker points by excitation process ( hall effect) ect ect