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Electronic Ignition -
Good Thing or Questionable?
From The Glove Box Coordinator Bob Stamnes
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"Electronic Ignition for a '57 Chev???? Don Boltz would like to hear from you about the pros and cons of installing electronic ignition on his 1957 Chevrolet. This is what we have heard so far: Bill Damm installed electronic ignition in his Thunderbird. After that he could not get it to run correctly. After much self-diagnoses, Bill took it to a shop. The shop tried to diagnose the problem. They concluded it was the electronic ignition, but could not fix it. They ended up pulling the electronic ignition out and putting the original ignition parts back in. They encouraged Bill to only use the original points and parts.
Jim Farris has a friend with a 55 Crown Victoria Convertible with the Thunderbird engine. He has installed electronic ignition and feels the car operates much better.
Dave Folsom said electronic ignition is great when it works, but it is impossible to diagnose a problem with it because it has a black box. Therefore if you have a problem with your electronic ignition, you must pull it out and replace it with the original points and parts to get the car running. This is the downside of electronic ignition.
Sounds like you could be in a heap of trouble if the electronic ignition fails and you do not have the original points and parts.
What is your experience? Call Bob Stamnes or email him at rstamnes@yahoo.com and we will put your experience in next month."
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Highway Safety Statistics
Browsing the statistics from the "Highway Safety Administration's National Center for Statistics" it's rather frightening to see the number of traffic fatalities at 42,642 in the US for 2006, in addition to the 2,575,000 injured. 630 of those fatalities were in Washington State alone. All though it states this is an improvement over 2005, that is still a lot of people being killed on our highways. Even though we might not be the cause of an accident it is still quite easy to become a victim without even trying. Outside of staying home, driving defensibly might save our hide. So take care and let's hope we don't become part of an unavoidable accident, or any accident so we can still be here to read the next Tappet Clatter. For more highway safety statistics refer to www.nhtsa.gov. Bill Damm
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