The demands for better emissions and fuel economy in the mid 1970s necessitated leaner fuel mixtures. These leaner mixtures required greater voltage and more spark to ignite. This challenge led GM ...

Racers are famous for being able to break just about anything. And not surprisingly, we're no different from them. A perfect case in point is our dyno test mule engine. We recently used it to test ...

Way back in 1975, General Motors, through its Delco Electronics Division, rethought how an ignition coil was controlled with the advent of its high-energy ignition (HEI) system. Subsequently, almost ...

When we first met Steve Davis, owner of Performance Distributors, we knew immediately that he was an out-of-the-box thinker. That's a pretty common characteristic among successful entrepreneurs, but ...

My 1978 Corvette is cutting out under acceleration. I took the car to the dealership, and they told me the distributor was defective and would need to be replaced. I would like to keep as many ...