There is only one way to find out for sure. Many Street Stock racing classes limit the ignition to stock-style replacement parts. For most Chevrolet and Ford engines, this means an HEI distributor is ...

Reliability, a simplistic design with many interchangeable components, and heavy support by OE-replacement and aftermarket manufacturers alike makes GM's HEI among the best executed distributor ...

It wasn't all that long ago that GM engineers designed the original HEI system to replace the decades old points-type ignitions. In the mid-'70s, leaner mixtures demanded greater voltage and more ...