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Yeah, I agree. But you have to build out all of the timing and pickup gear to control the electronics controlling that coil on the plug. This allows you to have a drop in solution, that still gets you the benefit of a stronger spark and no wear. Timing adjustments can be made from inside the car with your foot on the gas pedal, instead of with a gap and dwell tool under the hood.The whole point of electronic ignition is to eliminate the distributor! Fools! Coil per plug with NO wire in between is the only acceptable programmable ignition. Distributors have play in the timing set, the cam gear, the gap and overlap of the rotor, and those wires (oh the humanity!).
This is like a solar-powered flashlight or a screen door for a submarine in the ranking of brilliant ideas. Go direct fire or go home.
I rebuilt a Mazda rotary to use a megasquirt electronic ignition, and the interface looks much the same.