Pissed off with motor, want to change

Well yeah but it can be your back up dist and dwell can be set roughly with a feeler gauge.

Electronic ignition is easy but isn't cheap. He could spend $200 on a nice msd dist and then he needs different style plug wires and a $200 msd box to fire it. That's $500--just to see if its in the ignition system and where he lives winter will soon be knocking on the door