Mopar to ya!

[ripcord]

The 1st electronic ignitions had 2 ballasts, for the ECU and the coil. The one for the ECU was removed.

I'd note that the lack of an external ballast doesn't mean you didn't have a ballast at all, some coils had an internal one.

Yep. Fords and others had a resistance wire going to the primary side of the coil that dropped the voltage.

 

[CleanSump]

I believe my sister's Dart had a dual ballast resistor. That had points. I know I upgraded one of them to a photo-electric trigger and better coil. Dual ballast resistor just became an ornament on the firewall.

 

[Chris142]

Yeah I wonder how overblown this issue is.

I worked auto parts in the early to mid 90'S. I do not remember selling. A resister. I do remember selling a few of the nylon gears that go on the bottom of the slant6 distributor. Had those in the HELP section

 

[Kira]

My first car, a 1970 Toyota Corona Mk II, had such a resister.
The single previous owner had installed a "high energy ignition" system and removed said system AND DIDN'T RESTORE THE RESISTER when he traded the car in.

It ran like a bear but ate points. Someone showed me the bare spot on the firewall so I got a resister somewhere.
I never thought of the resister being incorrect but likely it was.

 

[Fordiesel69]

My favorite is the youtube video of the new rams with their bus terminator block that has the perfectly timed capacitor that shorts out and takes the entire bus down. Its some kind of green connector block under the dash. Really cheap but can strand you hard core.