just say YES! to MSD

There's more to the ignition system than just the control box, have you considered that CD and ECU systems operate their best with 2 different types of coils....

The MSD is a great system, $200+, it should have a coil designed for a CD ignition system, that's why we developed the FBO CD Ignition coil. The FBO Box $65.00 won't operate to it's maximum potential with a stock or Blaster 2 coil, the FBO G642 Coil provided in the kit is a special Coil designed just for the FBO ECU.

If your using the FBO Coil with the CD ignition system it will pump out 40-44KV but it's life will be short, with the FBO box it will deliver 34-38KV and last for years. Given un-ballasted power at 13.4V it'll deliever 38-42KV for racing applications but it'll get real hot after about 1-2 hours of continuous driving on the street.

Our testing showed that all the engines we ran did not improve with anything over 34KV. Now I'm sure there are exceptions to that rule as we didn't test any Pro Stock or top fuel engines, we conducted our tests on engines that we would typically see on the street or in the Sportsman and Pro Bracket lanes at the track.

We also discovered that the widest gap on the plugs possible was not always the best, fluctuations in the dyno graphs started happening at the wider gaps.

You have to know more how an ignition system works to understand power outputs and how it affects flame front ignition. You can gap the plugs at .100 and take a reading at the plug and it'll show 44KV, now gap them at .050 and it'll show 32KV. this test is only to determine what voltage the system can actually push in order to jump the spark between the electrode and the ground strap.

The lower the resistance in the system the lower the output reading you'll get. The only real way to test the capability of the system is to use a high pressure tank at about 1500 PSI, gap the plugs correctly and spin the ignition to about 7-8000 RPM that's about as close we can get without strapping your butt to a fender and making a pass holding the Output meter.

One more note, the CD systems are multi spark only up to 3000 RPM then they switch to single spark just like an ECU. This is mostly to help with a engine with a huge cam low compression and a bad tune-up, it'll bandaid the issues by virtually blow torching the combustion chamber with spark to get the fuel to ignite.