when you install the pertronix, your timing will be off, and you will have to readust it. Same for if you switch back. Also I'm not really understanding your statement, "the distributor isn't pointing to #1." I figure you mean the timing is off, which is what that condition would produce. You wouldn't have to worry about the rotor height, as that unit, (and I'm thinking most all of their new units) just pick up the high spots on the distributor cam.
