Electronic ignition Slant six with low comp

whitepunkonnitro said
When I last ran Top Fuel back in 97 or so, we were using two mags...Supermag V's. We were making approx. 3500 horsepower spinning 8000 in the lights and never had any ignition issues what-so-ever.
So, what is on top of a Supermag V triggering the spark? Right, a single set of points!
Points or HEI do not generate the spark, they only trigger when it happens.
30 years ago when I was street racing this stuff...High Compression BB's and Hemi's, I tried every ignition system under the sun. I ultimately found that a good quality Dual Point distributor gave the most reliable performance with the least amount of complication. If the point ignition is set up correctly, there is zero performance advantage when changing to electronic.

Tony, HEI is specifically the coil itself (Hi Energy Ignition is really only the coil output) and the triggering of the spark can be almost anything.
So in that respect I agree with you, as you can use points to trigger an HEI coil.
But to say there is zero improvement of HEI, or MSD or systems like that over points is pretty misleading, or I think it is anyway.

If you can run a .045-.050 plug gap and get 50,000 volt out of a points/coil system, then I would have to agree with it. (which I know can be done)Otherwise I can't accept the statement that "Spark is spark"