Hi, this is my first post here, hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I have a 69 F250 that's my workhorse, hauls the racecar, bobcat, and makes long distance runs up and down the coast looking for automotive treasures, usually ends up towing something home. Its got a sweet running 390, and I'd like to replace the stock points ignition with a more modern electronic setup. I have more experience with Mopars, and with them its as easy as switching to a later (1972-up)electronic distributor, and adding the 3 wire ECU, done deal. Is there an easy swap to a later ignition for my 390, and which parts/what year should I hunt for? Besides being maintenance-free, on my mopars it also helped mpg on longer trips and improved off-idle acceleration, something that would be nice for the Ford. Thanks!

I am certian someone more knowledgeable in this area will advise you, but until then welcome to the site!!!

What he said...welcome to the site...FE's are not my niche

Well I would get a distributor out of a 76 and earlier that has duraspark and an FE then get the mallory box instead of the old duraspark. I put the mallory on my 76 and it works great we bought the box and an adapter for the ford plug on the disributor so we didnt have to splice anything. The new ford distributor was only 30 or 40 bucks at autozone and it has all the guts it it so its ready to go.

EDIT Sorry not mallory but MSD. Youll also need to buy thier blaster 2 coil or somethin similar.

Thanks, thats what I needed. Sounds even easier than the mopars.

Yeah I haveent done it to my 72 yet but I will eventually. Check the gears on the distridutor to make sure theyre the same just to be safe.

Well it there is a few things you could do.
You could go all MSD or just get a one wire HEI style. about 180 bucks give or take..
I have them on both my trucks and I'll never look back.

Yeah but the ford distributor works fine and its a ton cheaper.

get a dist from a 76 truck with a 360 then go to the junkyard and get the coil,ignition box(cut the facory wires of junk trunk that has the 2 wire that plug into the ignition box) and the wires from a 76-79 that conect all 3. plug in the dizzy,coil and ignition box you'll have one wire extra. that extra wire(think its yellow) will get twisted in with the white wire on the 2wire plug. the red wire on the 2 wire plug get routed over to the starter soliniod and conected on the S terminal,set timing and start

That sounds like a good idea

This is where I got the one for my truck and it works great
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/FORD...ptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

Being a Mopar boy,why not leave it alone? If you can get a good setup on a dualpoint Dodge,that Ford is easy!