If there is a standard in the world for a stand-alone electronic ignition distributor for GM engines, it has to be the High Energy Ignition or HEI distributor. This large cap distributor first ...

The materials chosen by automakers for their ignition-system parts are excellent when it comes to insulation, but age and dirt can destroy spark plug cables and other components. Even after you have ...

The postwar General Motors OHV V-8s were difficult to tune. Ignition distributors mounted at the firewall end of the engine, and the breaker points and condenser were difficult to replace. In the late ...

Question: My Honda, which has 89,000 miles on it, is difficult to start whether it is warm or cold. It frequently takes two or three cranking intervals of four or five seconds each for it to start.