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 Posted: 05-24-2006 06:08 pm
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Greg Fletcher



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Location: Lake Nacimiento, California USA
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I've never installed an Electromotive ignition myself, but I have seen one local JH nearby that had it. The owner was very excited about the performance increase, silky smooth idle and durability. It is a bit of messing around to get a project like this going with some custom fabrication needed and it's not cheap. I think he said be paid close to $2K for everything (he said it was worth the money, but that's relative I suppose). That was 10 years ago and it could very well be less now. He used a laptop PC to dial in all the adjustments (required back then)- I've heard that's not necessary any longer with the improved units that are out now.

For me, this would be one of those projects I'd do after everything else was upgraded and spot-on. In the Club Store, a remanufactured, stock, distributor is $239, or $323 with a Pertronix (with or without vacuum retard capsule) and it only requires a recheck of the timing as you would do at a tune up, so it really is a jump to an Electromotive set up.