[Formulajones]

What I've been doing most recently, if you really want electronic maintenance free stuff, is simply keep the points distributor and fire an MSD box with it.

Lots of benefits and no draw backs.

Points simply become a trigger for the box and no longer supplies a spark, so the points need no further maintenance and last for ever.

You gain a rev limiter and a multispark discharge.

The real beauty of it is that if the box ever quits, I can simply swap 2 wires on the coil and run off the points in a matter of 30 seconds, eliminating the box all together, and get home. Extremely easy road side fix. No more modules to fail, no spare parts in the glove box needed, no tools required.

In my opinion it's even better than an HEI. I've done that too in the past and yes I know when those modules quit you can carry a spare and swap it out. Been there done that. Still not very fun trying to pull the cap and rotor off, removing wires so you can rotate the cap out of the way, dealing with those tiny module screws and changing all that on the side of the road, and hope you don't drop something, lol. Especially no fun on a Pontiac that doesn't exactly have easy access to the distributor. With the points/MSD I'm simply plugging in 2 wires and done. It's clean, it's simple, and still looks completely stock.

The other nice thing is you aren't buying these cheap Chinese distributors with god knows what kind of quality control these days, worrying about bushings etc... and getting harder to find a good used OEM HEI these days that doesn't have a wobbling shaft.