[reggman]

Thanks Lochlin. I see the error in my ways. I wasn't picking up on the whole "ballast" resistor being outside of the circuit. Got it now. I have 2.4'ish on coil. Add say a 1.6 "ballast" resistor to the coil to get the system ohms to ~4 ohms and THEN put in the circuit that has the 4.7 ohm resistor and the 2N222. Perfect. Thanks that helps clarify it for me. Since you used a 4.7 and yours works hopefully somebody will correct that GM HEI diagram to indicate 4.7 and not 4.7K.