Interesting ballast resistor article.

Those magazine guys are idiots. If I wanted more zap I would simply run a lower ohm resistor,like the MSD 1/4 ohm.

When I first purchased my fbo ign system it came with a really poor mexican ballast that popped after a month. I contacted the seller and they made good on it,only the new on popped after another 3 weeks or so. I went and bought an msd 1/4 ohm and never looked back. Those still went pop after 6 months or so,then I spaced it out from the firewall a 1/2" and they stopped going pop!

At least it's only a couple bucks to replace the ballast!