Re: Electronic Ignition conversion report

Posted by Mike On 2011/6/1 16:58:36

There is no need for a relay; i have a 6v positive ground pertronix setup in my spare distributor right now. It ran great until i put solid core wires on it. They're just bundling a pertronix setup with some other parts.

If you do a pertronix lookup, they do show autolite only, i've mentioned it a few times here about my 50. I still have the spare delco dist, and 2 autolites.

However, my install went flawlessly, click on the round thing under the rotor, put the original rotor on, original cap on.

The reason they don't work on an autolite is because the breaker plate rides on roller bearings and the whole plate is advanced when the vacuum pulls on it. They'd have to make a custom plate to fit that, and i doubt there is demand enough.

On the delco, the whole distributor jumps and turns when vacuum is applied, so you can just stamp a plate and put some holes in it.

The only difference from the outside that there needs to be is one wire goes to the coil and one to ignition, and one end of the coil to the ground. In a regular setup, it's not wired like that. No relays, etc. are needed.


However, some cars (not 6v i don't believe) didn't give the ignition full 12v, it stepped down with a resistor or resistor wire to like 9v. I don't think our Packard has that issue, but selling a relay with the kit would work around that, easier to build a kit on their end than troubleshoot old ignition wiring.

My packard's ignition wire has full voltage, so to switch back and forth is literally just switching some wires around when swapping distributors, no relays etc needed.

FWIW, i do champion pertronix products, some have had issues with some not working or whatnot, but i don't know of anyone having issues where it literally didn't fit. Sorry for your trouble.