You're right! I did a test on another car with the HEI conversion and "all those little electrons" did indeed seem to wander home by the shortest route. lol.
I've most of parts gathered now and am almost ready to make the change over. I thought of something else;
Are resistor secondary wires required? And if so, will Taylor spiral core wires suffice? THANKS

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I just completed the HEI conversion to the stock distributor with Duraspark internals installed. Was a bit of work but seems to work good. Mounted the HEI module remotely on the firewall on a piece of aluminum to act as heat sink and lots of air flow. All pieces collected were $66 plus my time. Not driven yet but idle quality seems better and throttle response crisper. Set to 17 intial and mech advance 38 and total max with vacuum advance 50 same as old set-up. Waiting for roads to clear up and get back together from other mods.

Scott

Are resistor plug wires needed with the HEI conversion???????????

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Only if you want to hear your radio. And they do actually work better on the street.

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

Thanks Frank. I've got solid core wires on it now and really don't want to go through the ordeal of installing those Taylor 8mm wires in the wire holders (1957) if I don't have to. And funny thing, I have no static AT ALL on the stock T&C radio with the solid cores. (The car has the factory condensers on the generator and voltage regulator, that's it) .

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