The conversion kit is awesome. You just made it sound like you thought your distributor was jinky....

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 No, I was hoping to keep my original dist. since I don't have a generous flow of income lol I was just wondering which would be better the electronic eignition conversion kit or the points eliminator kit

Thanks, it was my understanding that I don't need a new distributor for the boat, just needed to get the kit. I'm not really looking to race the boat or anything. My question was the difference between the "electronic ignition conversion kit" and the "points eliminator kit" and what all would I need to replace the points?

So i have a 1979 Challenger Jet with a 460 ford in it and it still runs on points. I've been looking to switch it to electronic ignition and have searching the web for conversion kits. I've found "electronic conversion kits" from mallory and pertronix but I've also found "points eliminator conversion kits" from ACCEL and Mallory, my question is what's the difference, is there a difference? Which should I go with??