First let me start by saying I am not a engineer, or a scientist, or a retired shop teacher. I am just a guy who loves old GM trucks and the GM six cylinder engine.
I have put 13k on my 45 GMC truck that has both Petronix and the flame thrower coil. At first I ran just a regular stock coil and stock plug wires. Yes, I am also using the pertonix plug wires now too. When I first bought the truck, the prior owner had already installed the Pertronix, and I was not amused by the thought of having it, hearing negitive storys about Pertonix through the years. In the past I had always ran the stock points set up in my previous trucks. Also at the time I was in the process of setting up my 1949 GMC suburban chassis that has a GMC 270 in it and I had already set it up with stock points.
While chasing a stumble under load in the 45 GMC a few years back I worked my way around the truck ignition system completely, and during that process I swapped out the Pertronix back to points and ran the truck. It was a noticable difference. Faster starting with the Pertronix and overall the truck feels like it has more pep during the rpm range when I run it. The prior owner of the truck put around 15k on the truck with the Pertronix before I owned it. So that's roughly 28k trouble free miles on the pertonix system in this truck.
I have since changed out the points on my suburban to a complete Pertonix set up. Again, I have notived a change for the better.
Here is a good article to read about Pertronix verses points ;
https://www.hagerty.com/media/maintenance-and-tech/ignition-debate-points-vs-pertronix/ Hot Rod, are you implying that Pertonix is falsley selling products? I'm curious as to why you make comments like "Flamethrower PLUS Pertronix- - - - - - -Barnum must have hired W.C. Fields to write his ad copy! LOL!"
And also "P.T. Barnum- - - - -"There's a sucker born every minute!"
W.C, Fields- - - - -"Never give a sucker an even break!"
So if these two guys are wrting the adds for Pertonix to sell their products your implying its fraudulent?
To bring it back full circle, my overall opinion is to run the complete set up from start to finish. Pertronix, coil, and plug wires. I would not recommend running the flame thrower coil with the stock points set up.
