Today in the parking lot two guys in an early '60s Barracuda pulled in and said hi. I mentioned to them that my new motor was having trouble with pre-detonation and they said that a friend of theirs had trouble with it and when he upgraded to an electronic ignition it made the problem much better. I fail to understand how that would make the problem better.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? I wanted to get a Pertronix kit anyway to get rid of my points, but will it improve my problem with pinging? As it stands I've got to retard the timing so far to make the thing run without pre-detonation that I can't rev it up where it wants to be as it starts missing and even backfiring from not having enough timing.
I'm running a 302 with '65 289 heads, which makes for lots of compression. I need this thing to run on pump gas, as it's my daily driver. I've tried advancing the timing, and it really screams. It pulls hard and really likes to rev, but I immediately retarded the timing again so as not to blow up my new engine from pre-detonation. I'm right on the boarderline of what will run on pump gas, so any little thing that will help would be great.