Lance..... ...your 1949 FRONTMOUNT 8N came from the factory with a positive ground battery system, for a reason. Unfortunately, modern ill-informed shadetree mechanics are so used to 12 volt negative ground modern cars that they just assume the positive ground is wrong. And 6 volts is a mindbender. May I recommend you consider fact that improper grounding of your 1-terminal squarecan 4-nipple frontmount ignition coil can COST you upto -40% of your sparkie volts. The consequences of inproper grounding of your battery can be eazily corrected by changine the battery around and grounding the positive terminal and connecting the negative terminal to the 3-terminal starter solenoid. ...THEN... re-POLARIZE your voltage regulator/generator. To re-polarize your electrical system to POSITIVE GROUND, simply "arc-spark" your voltage regulator BATT & ARM terminals on your squarecan voltage regulator under your oilpressuer gauge. The BATT & ARM terminals are side-by-side and connected to BIG heavy yellow wire. Ignore the other 2-skinny black wires. Simple, eh? As for your enquiry about electronic ignition, despite the glowing endorsements of pleasure of electronic ignition users, please NOTICE that they are ALL running the 5-nipple sidemount distributor which has room for the drop-in module installation. Please notice you have a 4-nipple frontmount distributor which DOES NOT HAVE room for a module without major modification. Also notice they also admit to running a 12 volt conversion, which has to be negative ground because of the built-in solidstate voltage regulator inside the alternator. So iff'n ya gotts yer little heart sett on electronic ignition then open your wallet for $150 for new distributor + $200 for 12 volt conversion + $200 for electronic module conversion. Bottom line, you can change alotta $3 ignition points on your kitchen table for the braggin' rights of having electronic ignition..... ....respectfully, Dell a 12 volt advocate for the right reason and runs an electronic ignition on his 1969 BMW 2002 that he installed
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