I have a restored 1965 coupe 289/V8 that is my daily driver. It has the original type points distributor and coil. I have been wanting to change to a HEI distributor and new coil to improve milage and performance. Is there a certain brand/style that anyone suggests? I have been told that ProComp is a good brand but i can't find too many specifics on it. Pertronix has been in every magazine i see but is twice the price. I am in the middle of "modernizing" my car and will eventually overhaul it with a new engine/intake/carb and want the distributor to keep up.

Any suggestions??  

Why not just replace your points with the pertronix electronic pickup, not the whole distributor. Its a very easy replacement and you can still use your stock coil. Without big engine modifications there is little performance to be found by replacing your stock ignition. The pertronix will however, give you reliability which is great.  

i have a procomp in my 67. they look nice in there, i have got a lot of compliments on the looks of it.  I have a smaller air cleaner i dont think a big one will fit with the HEI dist.  

Yeah, just put the pertonix system for 70 bux in it.  The HEI BS is for bowties.  

I went with the Pertronix Ignitor system with a new Flame Thrower coil. It was the best decision I've ever made. $95 got me out of the door and 15 minutes later i was driving my car without ever having to worry about points and condensors again. Thanks for the advise. I would recommend this system to anyone.  

Yeah its really a nice system and easy to install. One thing you might want to do in the future is take out the resistor wire under the dash so that your pertronix gets the full 12 volts. It operates fine at 9 volts but the coil steps up the voltage,,make it easier with a full 12 volts. The old ballast resistor was there to protect the points from burning up and you dont have points now so you can do away with it.  

Mech Guy,
As an electrical engineer and ex auto electrican/technican, I'm not wild about cutting up good wire harnesses. An alternative is to use the existing coil (+) wire to power a 12V relay that switches battery voltage from the starter solonoid or alternator output to the coil. This alternative would provide a less permanent solution then cutting out the resistor wire. My 2 cents.
JLG  

Yeah ingenious, I never have any trouble hacking up wires since I was a mechanical engineer ,, ha ha I always hated electricity anyway. The only trouble with that is that failure of your relay either leaves the engine running or shuts it off at an inconvenient time and ,,,, will a 12v relay operate reliably on nominally 9 volts?  I favor simplicity,,,, I would hack the wire, but JLG's solution is inventive for sure.  

You want a constant 12V to the distributor with the Pertronix system.  The old points system does not give you that. The way you get that is to run a switchable positive wire from the ignition to the coil and bypass the pink resistor wire. What is there to not understand about that?  

That's probably the least impacting solution Soaring and I agree.  The relay is just another thing to fail. I believe that the common wire out of the ign switch sends switched power to the Vreg terminal "S"(Green-Red wire on my 66) that would be a real good place to get switched 12vdc in the engine compt with little modification to the wire harnesses.