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Suspension and electronic ignition on 2002s

On my recently aquired '73 tii, I have noticed (it's kind of hard not to) 
that the ride is very harsh. Every little bump rattles through the car, 
and larger ones are not much fun at all. The scary part is at higher 
speeds, when you hit a bump it's like the car bounces off of it (instead 
of absorbing the shock) and jumps a few inches away frrom the line it was 
traveling on the road. The car I believe has Eibech springs (one in the 
rear looks like it's saging). And were installed proably about 3 years 
ago. Do these springs rerally make the suspension that much stiffer? 
Maybe the shocks need replacing, but I thought that the opposite problem 
happened when shocks went bad (excessive bouncing and such). The bushing 
were just replaced less then a month ago, but the other rubber components 
are old looking and proably original. Can these be replaced? Might they 
be part or all of the problem? My parents have a '90 or '91 Nissan 
Stanza. I don't feel that the body-roll on that car is too excessive, and 
the ride is comfortable, what direction should I go to achive a feel more 
like that (maybe a little more preformance orientated but not much more)?
(Wow, that turned in to a very long question, now to my next question)
	I'd like to convert my tii to an electronic ignition system. 
Bavarian is advertising a Pertronix ignitor for $109.95. This seems to be 
a basic plug and play instalation, or are there special adjustments 
involved when installing this system? (I don't have any fancy tools, like 
a CO2 meter or anything) Would anyone recomend another system? How about 
MSD ignitions? Has anyone noticed any improvments with these? Bavarian is 
also advertising on the same page Jacob's Energy Team Coil, that 
supposedly intensifys the the spark durring high demand times such as 
cold starting and high RPM's (paraphrased). Again, any noticable 
difference.  Sorry for all the questions, I couldn't find the answers in 
the FAQs.
Thanks!

'73 2002tii