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How To Install a Pertronix Ignitor Ignition System Classic Car

Episode 280 Autorestomod
Cam and Jeff give tips and tricks on Pertronix 1 2 and 3. We show how to install the Pertonix Ignitor I Pertonix Ignitor II and Pertronix Ignitor III.

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[deanmeyer]

Installed unit on WD45 Allis Chalmers gas engine that had been converted to propane. I converted to 12 volt negative ground before installation. The difference was incredible! After opening plug gaps to .035, and installing hot rod plug wires, starting is much faster, response is better, and even with the lower compression gas engine, tractor is still putting out 45 PTO horse power. All this work was done 20 years ago.

[reaper]

Put one in my son's Pontiac 326. Lasted a few weeks before it took a crap. Tried to get it replaced and all the support wanted to do was come up with reasons why it was my fault. The 2 or 3 might be better, but we dropped a Mallory Unilite in it last problems.

[mustardstaind]

You can run the Pertronix II in a factory tach car. I am running one in my 1967 Shelby. You run the factory wires as you would to the coil, including the black from the ignition unit. The red wire that comes off the Pertronix unit will have to have a direct feed from the ignition switch. I simply pulled a 16 gauge fine stranded wire through the boot that feeds the engines gauges and soldered a ring terminal and heat shrink wrapped the connection. It's to the 12V IGN hot.

[standard]

and yet again you two have helped me immensely!!! every time I go to do something to my 1964 XM Futura <Australia> you have answered all my questions and some that I haven't even asked yet :) Please support these guy's everyone it's well worth it! Thank you Jeff and Cam. My T Shirt and Mug are on the way <who knows how long it will take to make it all the way down here?>

[gillthomas]

I have a 1975 f100 with a 360 and solid state ignition. My resistance wire runs all the way to the ignition switch. Where do I tie in to get the 12v to coil?

[leoperator]

Could y’all make a tutorial for running the full 12 Volts? It seems like a common problem, and I can’t find a video or a good article to explain the process. Thanks!

[johnmilner]

I used the resistor wire on my Pertronix and it worked fine. I think it lasted for about 15 yrs until it started failing due to under hood temp. I then went back to points for a few yrs then decided to try Crane X R-i which I've been using since about 2002. The Crane unit is a simpler install where you remove the points and condenser and slide the Crane unit where the points were which use the same holes. On GM points distributors you may need to cut down the Crane screw for the left mounting hole so the vacuum advance can moves freely. The unit have 2 wires that connect to the coil + and - terminals. The Crane unit also has a rev limiter. In both modules I used a MSD Blaster 2 coil. I also used the resistor wire with the Crane unit until I connected a MSD 6AL 6420 in my 1970 Z28.

[MrDriftonin]

In case you lose your air gap little tool/gauge, I just got off the phone with tech support because I did lose mine. it is .030.

[mambaa]

Quick question: don't one have to readjust the ignition timing after installation of the ignitor module? I may have missed that in the video. My best from Germany, Jay

[NinoPrez]

Any advice would be appreciated. I have a pertronix module 2 on my golf cart. Any reason why the manufacturer Columbia Par Car had one installed?? My cart just starts without running. Would the module have to be replaced??

[kermitefrog]

So, as earlier I replaced the points and condenser with Pertronix on my 1964 Ford f250. I notice that Pertronix also has a distributor to replace the original distributor. Is replacing the original distributor with the Pertronix worth the investment?

[kermitefrog]

I would like to try this on my 1964 Ford f250 pickup with a 292. I already have the part in my distributor that replaced my points and it has been a great system.

[hippiebuckshot]

Don't mess with the pink wire. There is a relay kit offered by Pertronix now. Or you can get your own but make sure the relay coil has a diode + & - across the coil and 30 amp contacts.
Bosch style relay and 15 amp fuse + side of batt to relay contacts.

[fieldingbeesapiary]

Great video...thanks, do you guys think you could do one with the Pertronix 2001 Ignition Power Relay Kit instead?

[hughphillipsMustang]

I bought a new coil for my factory 67 mustang 289. The original coil has positive and negative. The new one has battery, and distributor. Which wires go to which terminal on the new one? I don't want to burn up a brand new coil by having them hooked up to battery, black to distributor?

[stevencorry]

Flat head screws should come with a 25 year sentence

[montefordham]

Hey guys, so did you not connect the red PerTronix wire to the positive side of the coil. Looks like you instead, ran it to the 12V ignition correct??

[jonathanwebb]

You should do a video on how to upgrade a "hot" but totally dead Pertronix Ignitor to "old tired" but still working points which was the job I spent yesterday afternoon doing.

[TheFARM]

So a few years back i shoehorned a 300 into my 68 mustang... eager i threw a points distributor in there just to get it running... then after a few blissful months, my car didnt want to start... i thought it was the coil since i wasnt getting any spark so i went and bought an accel coil... only it didnt have any nuts on it and i lost my other coil’s nuts... being an air force mechanic i tried what i could to make it work and found that bullet connectors fit nicely over the studs of a coil... still it didnt start and it hit me... the ignition condenser... after wasting $100 of troubleshooting a $5 part got my mustang running again

[mattisenberger]

it be easier and better to run a HEI distributor made for a ford? Just saying....