Pertronix and ballast resistor

[Tony Brooks <tony.brooks@xxxxxxxxx>]

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I need a little help from those of you who have installed the Pertronix 
Ignitor kit. I recently installed the pertronix kit, flamethrower coil, 
plug wires and plugs in my 65 poly 318. I intially bypassed the ballast 
resistor and connected the red Ignitor wire directly to the positive 
side of the coil since the Flamethrower coil has internal resistance. 
This seemed to work fine except the car didn't start as easily as it did 
with the points. It would always start, but it seemed like the starter 
was really struggling to turn the motor over. Could this be a voltage 
problem?

Since the Pertonix instructions suggest using a ballast resistor if one 
already exists, I decided to move the red Ignitor wire to the ignition 
side of the ballast resistor to see if this improved anything. The 
ignition side is the driver's side of the ballast resistor right? When I 
tried starting the car, I saw smoke coming from the negative battery 
terminal/cable and immediately stopped. 

After looking at the wiring diagram for my Coronet, I'm a little 
confused. There's IGN1 and IGN2. It looks like IGN2 bypasses the ballast 
resistor for cranking, and IGN1 powers the regulator and coil through 
the ballast resistor. The only option I haven't tried is connecting the 
red Ignitor wire directly to the ignition wire.Any help from you that 
have successfully installed this kit is greatly appreciated and sorry 
for the long post.

Thanks
Tony

65 Coronet 440

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