The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area Engine Shop Lectric Limited Electronic Ignition Conversion?

Has anybody had any experience with the electronic ignition conversion kit offered by www.Lectriclimited.com? It supposedly fits inside the original equipment distributor assembly for V8's and uses the stock rotor and cap. Sound too good to be true? Electronic ignition that looks like a stock distributor. What will they think of next?

These types of conversion kits have been on the market for quite some time. Jegs sells a variety of electronic conversion kits:

http://www.jegs.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/category_10001_10002_11577_-1_10381

Or you can buy one of these stock looking Accel distributors:

http://www.jegs.com/i/Accel/110/52100/10002/-1

I've had a Mallory Unilite distributor for years and no problems at all.

I use the Crane brand conversion kit for the v-8s. It fits right in replace of the points & uses the stock cam as a reluctor.

i also have the crane brand in one of my trucks. it is really good i like the built in rev limiter

I'm looking at HEI because at least one of my cylinders is not firing. I know no. 1 is not firing, but the others on the right bank are (I haven't had time to check the left bank). From a previous post I have been convinced that the dist cam lobe is worn and not pushing the points open for the non-firing cylinders. It looks like some of the HEI conversions use the cam lobe to control the spark. Theoretically, I would still have the problem even with the new HEI. Right?