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Well here's my 2 cents!

I chased a problem of this sort on mine, I had a Dura spark set up at the time, I had been hearing alot about failures with the MSD Ignitions, so what to do? I went with a Mallory Unilite to go back to a simple set up, this cured the problem but that system is slowly deterioating, way to soon for a new system.
I had looked for parts for the Dura spark system back then and had not found much.
I firmly believe that all this after market stuff is junk!
So what to do?
Well last night at Cruisin Grand in Escondido there was a MSD rep in a booth there and I asked him about this problem and during the discussion we may have come up with a solution.
With the MSD electronic's or any other brand, you use a points distributer. the points act as the contact breaker for the ignition instead of the commonly used electronic's breaker. After your install, you install a jumper in the event your modern day electronic box goes belly up you can hit a switch and run on the points/coil to get you on your way.
Sounds like a good idea to a big problem but it needs to be sorted out & I also need to find someone who has the points distributer for performance applications.

Just another thought.

Mark