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GEORGE - A word of warning on using the Ford thick film ignition as a base for your system. It wasn't one of Ford's better ideas. I had an '87 300-6 F-150 with it and an '88 302-HO Mustang GT with it that both gave up around 50,000-60,000 miles. Seems the heating & cooling cycles delaminated something inside the distributor. Had to pull the distributor to replace. Lucky Me! Had a '78 300-6 F-150 with Ford DURASPARK, little diecast box on the firewall gets tired after 50,000 and the Standard brand automotive replacement outlasts the rest of the truck.
I finally got smart. Traded for a '96 F250 with the IH built 7.3L diesel. And carried a glow plug relay and cam position sensor with me plus the tools to change them. Of the over half a million miles I put on FORD pickups the diesel got the vast majority put on it, and 25 years old I'd still take it for a long road trip.