Whats the deal with ignition box upgrades. The companies claim a number of benefits. Has anyone upgraded their ignition. What is the real story?

 

not worth it unless you have some very serious FI going on, or some insane All motor setup.

Stock ignition is fine way and beyond what most people do to there tegs.

The situation where I would recommend it, is if you are running N2O so you can set a rev limiter before you hit the fuel cutoff, and have the timming retard when you spray, but remain stock all other points.


[Modified by StyleTEG, 6:35 PM 7/31/2002]

 

wouldnt recommend it unless u were goin forced induction. it smoothens the powerband. some ignition boxes allow you to retard timing, change your rev limiter and use additional rev limiters for drag racing.

 

yea dude we put one on this chics civic in our club and made no diff other than a cleaner spark . .
i did one on my R for numerous reasons. . . but im also running 100 shot of juice.
so i got a 2step rev limit, nitrous retrad control , start retard, and alot more spark at top end where im getting all my power at. . . and cleaned up the way my plugs burned to . . . but like i said , im running an insane set up .

hers is basic and did nothing but waste money she could have used for a header or something