Biggest benefit of MSD type Ign, is cars with manuals are much harder to stall at low throttle. Also systems that run leaner A/F ratios can see improved performance sort of. An old friend of mine had a 340 4speed in an E body with an MSD that was dam near impossible to stall out. He could side step the clutch from an idle and it wouldn't die, it would just lurch with a chirp of the tires and go.