Car Craft tales you through the steps of how to convert a Ford or Chrysler ingition to a GM HEI for a high-performance, more-efficient ignition.

The HEI distributor is an inductive-discharge-style ignition, but with the points replaced by a solid-state switching device called an electronic ignition-control module.

Chrysler had the right idea way back in 1972 when it stepped away from ignition points and went to electronic ignition. It took GM a few years more before it came out with the HEI distributor.

MSD's Super HEI Kit (PN 8500) comes with everything needed to perform the conversion from factory HEI inductive discharge coil and module setup to a capacitive discharge 6AL box (PN 6420) and ...