Need a quality US Made HEI recommendation for my 250 I6

[Yamariv]

Originally Posted by 72SB

Unfortunately you are wrong. Believe what you want. External ballast and resistor wires are for points dizzy.

Pertronix specifically says in any of their units to eliminate resistor wire if converting over to points. There are several threads on this forum about replacing the resistor wire for HEI be it a GM unit or Pertronix. Read up

Agreed lower voltage will not "immediately" kill a HEI module...but it will after time

So it sounds like we've narrowed it down to possibly the pickup coil or that ballast wire.

I'm sure when the PO put in the more modern engine, that wire was not converted to a 10 gauge. Either way, that wire with all those but joints has to be redone pronto. All those connections can't be good.

Does that ballast wire go right back to the fuse box if I were to open the harness and change it entirely?

Anyone have a link to the connectors I'll need by chance?