I was given a brand new Hot-Spark Electronic Ignition Conversion that will fit my specific distributor. Does anyone have experience with them and their installation? No, I'm not considering PerTronix at this point. I'd just like to try this out.

I have a spare distributor that matches the one in my car so I will will keep the one with the points mounted in it handy in the trunk if the electronic one fails while out on the road. I never go anywhere without a toolbox in the trunk, including an 11mm hand wrench, timing light, and dwell meter, so this will be tossed in there too.

Now, I have it all housed and mounted up inside the distributor, but the problem I am running into trying to hook this up is that it states the red wire connects to the positive (+) side of the coil and the black wire connects to the negative (-) of the coil. However, I do not have a modern coil, but rather the OEM coil with the armored cable coming from the ignition to the base of the coil with a negative (-) lead off the top. How would one go about hooking this up? Am I outta luck using this with the OEM coil?

Thanks in advance.

-Jared