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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera View Post
Put back in the points. Try that and see if the miss is gone. My brother's daily driver is a 54 VW Bug. He has tried the electronic distributors, and ended up going back to points. One of the local PCA members has had his 1967 912 for 37 years. He tried electronic points and it never ran "right" and he went back to points.

I understand that is like saying 1930 technology is better than the new stuff, but points are certainly tested and proved to work. Finding good quality points is the hard part.

This. I installed per Pertronix (sp?) in my friends 240Z. For the life of me, we could not get it to run right. Turns out it was a bad one.
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