[Healeys] Healeys Digest, Vol 1, Issue 182

[sbyers at ec.rr.com]

Gary -
Since that's my quote you used, let me say that I was not knocking Pertronix.  I was just saying that my experience on the list over more than 10 years is that everytime this topic has come up, about half (49.2% to be exact) of the responses are very favorable and half (50.8%) are not (or maybe it was the other way around).  I'm waiting for more of a consensus before I spend the money to install a Pertronix on my car.

I hope Pertronix has fixed whatever problems they might have had, and that your survey will produce positive results to show that the consensus is now heavily on the favorable side.  If so, I'll be the next in line to get one.

Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
Havelock, NC  USA

---- Editorgary at aol.com wrote: 
> In a message dated 9/14/07 10:25:40 PM, healeys-request at autox.team.net 
> writes:
> 
> 
> > Thought about it, but there are just about as many people on the list who 
> > have tried it and gone back to points as have tried it and think it's great.
> > 
> > 
> 
> I don't think that's true; used to be because during the first year of their 
> manufacture for Healeys there was a high failure rate due to a bad bonding 
> process between the control box and the base, but that was solved after that 
> according to an interview I did with them several years ago for British Car 
> Magazine.
> So.... to confirm this, would anyone who has installed a Pertronix in the 
> past, say, three years and had it operate all right upon initial installation but 
> then fail later please report that to the list?
> Thanks
> Gary
> (No commercial interest, but I hate to see a good product continue to get a 
> bad rap due to an initial problem that the maker has resolved.)