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Hi guys hope your all enjoying summer. Hey wanted advice, opinions etc... on Mallory solid state ignition "switch over" Took out my points and installed one. Almost had it runnin and starter crapped out. So till next tues , I am sitting on my hands! Any Opinions? Thanks! Jim

Let us know how it works. What is the cost on the Mallory?

Cost was about 60 bucks. Just picked up starter to try again. Actually hated to do it, but this is gonna be an everyday driver and was always kinda hard to start. ( old school dies hard!) haha will give full report. Kind of suprised i figured alot of you guys may have made the switch. If it works out , will give all links etc....

Cool! IIRC, the Mallory is optical. You'll go a long way before that fails, I bet. $60 is a solid deal. I'd love to hear how it works out.

Well guys , put new starter in last night. Started right up! Granted it ran pretty rough, have to fine tune. here is a link, if your interested...........http://tinyurl.com/43vypst I was a little off on cost 75 $ plus shipping. Hopefully after timing etc... will run great. I will let ya know.

I put a similar retrofit points elimination kit (Accel) in my 68 Pontiac about 4 years ago and it has been bulletproof.

Sure is nice to not be adjusting points anymore.

We some good points on this topic in thread

viewtopic.php?f=19&t=22424

The drag race guys like the optical Mallory setup. I don't.

The sensor gets dusty and causes the ignition to quit. Cleaning it fixes it for a while, but it's a never ending battle.

The Mopar setup is the best electronic ignition in the world. The resistor goes open once in a while, but they are cheap. I have thought about going to a big 50 watt thick film heat sink mount resistor put on a plate with some goop, but never did it.

The sensor coil in the distributor goes open once in a while, they are easily replaced.

The control box fails. Usually the big transistor fails and they would be cheap to fix but they are potted and depotting them is not worth the candle. The TO-mount transistor is probably a dollar or so.

In a hundred thousand miles of driving expect one failure of either the sensor or box and one or two wirewound resistors to fail. You will go through probably four caps and rotors and if you use solid core plug wires with resistor plugs one set of plug wires. OTOH on a modern coil on plug car you might go through nothing in 100,000 miles...or have the ECU fail and spend five hundred bucks. Payable now.

A hundred dollar bill will get you a brand new cap, rotor, sensor, control box, wires,(I buy a roll, boots, terminals and a crimper), resistor, and maybe a spare junk yard distributor too.

I'm a big fan of the mopar electronic ignition too. Dead reliable and CHEAP.


That said, I'm going to play with an HEI module on my current distributor because the GM HEI is just as reliable as the Mopar stuff and it removes the ballast resistor.