Points keep burning up
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From: like subarctic, brrr man!
Only problem with this I can see is cold weather starting. Fuel takes a lot more energy to ignite when cold. There should be a wire attached to the I on the starter solenoid which feeds the coil full voltage (bypass the ballast resistor) to give it extra oomph during crank. Also, running full voltage would overheat a stock coil or any coil not designed to handle it.
Think about it, for every engine cycle, this coil is building up a charge 6 or 8 times! there is only so far you can go with performance and why most manufactures went with wasted spark coils or individual coils per spark plug to run fat dwell times.
Look at your under dash harness from about the fuse panel to about centre of dash for any hackery there which is where that resistor wire is located. Repair this for the best fix.
Or swap away from points and use a full voltage coil suggested by 351clevlandC4 and EP145.
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