The GM HEI distributor is still a marvel of simplicity and reliability after four decades. Here’s how to maximize its performance on the cheap.

Since an HEI system produces more voltage and amperage output than a points-style distributor, a larger-diameter distributor cap is needed to prevent voltage from cross-firing inside the cap.

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The HEI Distributor has been a standard in the world of stand-alone electronic ingitions since 1974. We give our HEI Distributor a tune-up in the February 2013 issue of Car Craft Magazine.

Four Wheeler's Verne Simons shows us how to install a Davis Unified Ignition HEI Distributor in an AMC 304 V-8.

If you're swapping points to an HEI distributor to lower maintenance requirements, you’re good to go, but will you be able to feel a difference if you do?