[Rubenvdb]

Hallo,

First of all, I’m new ad this forum and I apologize for any mistakes in my English writing, but I’ll try


I’m planning to buy an Allison electric ignition kit, has anyone experience with this kit? (good-bad...)

 

[baz]

hi ruben and welcome to opelgt.com dont worry about your english mines terrible too and its my first language , we have dutch and french speakers depending where you come from and theres always babelfish if that dont work
sorry i cant help with your question but when the american folks get out of bed im sure the will know
where in belgium are you we have a few members from there and i used to work in antwerp at the ship yards

 

[RallyBob]

Allison ignition was bought by Crane Cams some years ago. But they are basically the same units.

There is the Crane XR-700 which replaces the points and is a stronger than the original ignition. For this you must retain the original resistor wire to the ignition.

Then there is the XR-3000 which uses the same trigger as the XR-700, but it is a stronger ignition system. This unit should have straight 12V power fed to it (no resistor) in order to get the best spark energy. It works quite well for high performance and racing engines. I've used this system a lot with a Crane PS91 coil for road use, or a PS92 coil for racing use. Don't use the PS92 coil for road use! It will overheat at idle/tickover speeds.

HTH,
Bob

 

[Rubenvdb]

Thanks,

I think I’ll go for XR-700 then, because I’m not really going to race with my opel GT, I just want to get ride of those points (I’ve some bad experience with them…)

to "baz", I'm from around Brugge