[2] The company moved to new facilities in El Paso, Texas and started to develop an extensive line of other automotive ignition products.

One incident involving "slew rate rev limiters" as a form of basic traction control caused a number of the company's products to be banned from a variety of sanctioning bodies.

MSD entered voluntary chapter 11 bankruptcy late in 2013 in an effort to reduce debt acquired in the purchase of several companies including Racepak and Edge Products.

The results of this are still to be seen, but the company added "contending the case has the potential to free-fall into a Chapter 7 proceeding absent a sale process."

Hot Rod Magazine named MSD's 6A ignition box into its second class of the Speed Parts Hall of Fame in 2009 in recognition of how the company has helped to shape the American racing industry.