Oh dear, where to start... 1) You should NEVER see ignition in the outside world (except for imfamous spark check with loose boot next to block). If your ignition is arcing that bad I'd be afraid to go near engine. 2) .08" is WAY too wide of a gap. Didn't you notice .028" spec in book? 3) Widening plug gap on low voltage ignition is only going to make matters worse. Plug will misfire for sure. And fouling plugs are a quickly viscious cycle that never gets better without manually cleaning them. 4) Do NOT remove ballast resistors. They are there for ignition module's benefit, not coil's. Running full 12 volts through module will cook it. 5) Is going to be rather difficult to increase dwell time on electronic ignition. 6) 18,000 was standard ignition voltage at turn of decade. Voltages have steadily increased though years. 1960's: 8,000-12,000. 1970's: 15,000-18,000. GM HEI: 25,000. I believe today's coil packs put out 80,000 plus. Old mechanic once told me 90% of car problems were electrical. Over years have found out how correct he was. Bill Robertson #5939 >--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, elvisnocita@xxxx wrote: > > Can sombebody explain the function and advantage of a high voltag coil to a > stupid electronics guy like I am ? > > Please a usefull explaination !?!?! > > Rich, I bet you can save your 25.99 for something more usefull. > If you need a higher voltage to ignit - open the gap of the plugs. > The result will also be, that the wires look pretty funny in the dark. > At least this happened to my last car after I didn't replace the plugs for > about 30k miles ! > I had a gap of about 2mm (about 0.08 " for the non metric....) and the car > run pretty crappy. > > What you also need is more energy in the coil. There's several ways get > that. > Buy the coil. > Or get rid of the resistors. > Or manipulate the ignition control circuit to get more time to load the > coil. > > So why didn't Volvo, Renault, Delorean and all the other car manufacturers > give more energy on the ignition / plugs ? > I bet they don't do it because so you guys can go and buy a cheap, expensive > aftermarket coil that will fix all the problems that your cars suffer from. > > This coil stuff sounds like those little magnets you could buy to clip > around the gas > hose to get more power, better gas mileage and of course nicer girls.... > > Please prove me wrong > > Elvis > > ..... > > I'm running kinda thin again and I don't know if I can run out a buy > > a coil right now. > > > > Advance Auto did have an Accel coil for $25.99 but it didn't say what > > the voltage output was. I didn't want to buy another weak coil. > > -- > COMPUTERBILD 15/03: Premium-e-mail-Dienste im Test > -------------------------------------------------- > 1. GMX TopMail - Platz 1 und Testsieger! > 2. GMX ProMail - Platz 2 und Preis-Qualitätssieger! > 3. Arcor - 4. web.de - 5. T-Online - 6. freenet.de - 7. daybyday - 8. e-Post Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT <http://rd.yahoo.com/M=251812.3170658.4537139.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=170512 6215:HM/A=1693352/R=0/SIG=11tralmvc/*http://www.netflix.com/Default?mqso=6 0178293&partid=3170658> click here <http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=251812.3170658.4537139.1261774/D=egroupm ail/S=:HM/A=1693352/rand=701127706> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
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