Pro's and Con's
Always is two sides of the coin.......
Here is one side to that.....
I ran a Morris with a retardable base on my 52 for many years....
Being 4-3/4 stroke and more compression then it should have for today gas...
It was somewhat a bear to kick....Had to throw a heavy kick into it for a good spark to happen....I'm sure if it was a snap-mag it would have been much, much easier...But at that point in time, those wasn't on the market yet...
What I did was revert back to an battery ign....
The one I choose was a single-fire, multi spark with four areas of the advance curve that was dialable....
Plus it has a VOES hook-up.....
After months of dialing in on the road...and some Dyno time...
Got it to live with shit fuel of today and still having 10.5:1 compression going on...
Running Mallory number 7 race boxes on some drag cars in the past and this Ign system having about the same features made the choice a bit easy...
Each one of the four lights that are on the "Magic Box" comes on at a step up in RPM's..
Each has an adjustable screw for that working RPM range, in turn you can speed up the timing curve or slow it down....The whole RPM range of operation is completely dialable....
This unit has been in service for about 25 years on my bike with-out a hint of any trouble..... "Knock on Wood"
Back in the day , these was the most Hi-Tech Battery Ign. Systems that was on the market....
Wasn't just a few years later after I got this one that they down-sized the Magic Box to all fit in the timer.....
The Morris snap mag is the shit for Kick Start Bikes...
But once they fire up they go to full advance on the spark...
The only way you have of controlling the curve is by retarding the mag from full advance...
That's not all that of a Bad thing to do these days when High Compression and the Fuel that the EPA and OPEC is forcing us to use....are in the mix..
