Does the Vintage Speedster gauges work together with a contactless ignition system?

I don't know about the Vintage gauges, but the ones in my Beck works fine with the Petronix ignition system I have.  I believe the gauges were made by VDO.

In my case, the instrument didn' t work with the ignitor...

Also in the manual was written, that it does only work with usual contacts...

 

I just wanted to be sure before i order the ignition. Maybe someon has tried out this combination?

You may want to try this to get it to work:

 

http://www.msdignition.com/Pro...agnetic_Trigger.aspx

A similar topic was discussed a short while back, check the link

 

https://www.speedsterowners.com...8#442795680589722108

thanks for the interesting link! but i'm iterested in the question, if anyboddy especially has an idea if the vintage speedster instruments work with this ignition. i wanne check this out before i order the ignition, that' s why i ask... :-)

I have the Pertronix ignition in my vintage and never had a problem. 

Jan--if "a "contactless ignition stystem" means points then the answer is yes.

 

I went with a Mallory Unilite distributor that uses a solid state ignition module (like Petronix) and the gauges worked just fine.

 

For those using the Mallory Module solid state modules Tangerine racing ststes " If your car will not start, but it was fine the last time you drove it, there's a good chance your ignition module has failed. Particularly if you have solid core spark plug wires.  I don't know if this applies to all solid state modules such as Petronics.  I installed a set of MSD Spiral Wound Spark Plug Wires for this reason.

 

On trips I carry a spare module--cheap insurance.

 

If "Vintage gauges" means cheap Chinese copies, then any trouble here could easily be with what's inside those gauges, vs. the ignition, per se.  And by gauges, I assume you mean the tach.  Not sure how any of the other gauges would be effected one way or the other wrt the ignition system.  Just $0.02

My Vintage tach works with fine with the CB Performance Magnaspark.

Hi all,

"contactless ignition stystem" seems to be the wrong word but i could not find a translation on google... I think, we are talking about the same. I added a picture of the ignition sysem to be sure.

The reason for my question was, that some RPM gauges got problems with these ignition systems and I did not want to order it and it does not work in the end.

So it seems to work so thank you for the answers ;-)

 

Jan Peter,

 

lots of people on here are using contact-less ignition modules.  I have a reproduction Tach from Vintage Speedsters and I am using a CB Performance "Magna Spark", others use Pertronix modules and still others use different modules.  

 

I have not read of anyone using mechanical point contacts (and I think few people now remember how to set them properly!), but there are still maybe a few people out there who have not changed.

 

All of these seem to work OK with Chinese reproductions of VDO Tachs, but, honestly, you can never tell until you get the module and try it out.  Usually, if it grounds (earths?) that side of the coil enough to fire the spark it will also work with your tach.