Sorry, But the HP coils such as the Blaster and others are designed for 10,000 RPM's and deliver 7.5 amps of current at 180MJ( Stored energy ). Normal secondary operating voltage is 36 to 42KVA depending on input voltage. They were build for performance. There is no reverse effect. Unless you get up or close to the maxed out rating of the coil which I don't think we have anything to worry about. Couple that with low ohmage wires which are also made for maximum performance to the plugs and you get a strong spark backed up with the current it needs. The reverse affect is a better running car and smoother idle and stronger pick up. John Hervey http://www.specialtauto.com/delorean-images/performance-package.jpg -----Original Message----- From: David Teitelbaum [mailto:jtrealty@xxxx] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 8:47 PM To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [DML] Re: High Voltage Coils, High Octane Fuel Getting technical now there is a property called "saturation". Simply stated you can only put so much energy into a coil, any more and it won't give you anymore output. Using a coil with a higher ratio of turns in it may give you more output voltage but only up to the saturation point. That point is reached as the RPM's increase. Think of it as turning the coil on and off fast. The faster you turn it on and off the less you will get out of it. So that high performance coil may give you more voltage at 2,500 rpm but as you get up to 4,000 it may not have enough oomph left in it. There is a reverse efffect, and that is as the RPM's increase the combustion pressures increase requiring higher and higher voltages to jump the gap on the spark plugs. This is just when that oversaturated coil is not able to keep up. You really have to think of these things as SYSTEMS. By changing one part in the secondary ignition system you will not gain much. The difference you may notice is only because the coil you replaced was 20 + years old and wasn't doing enough in the first place. You could have replaced it with a new, stock coil and probably noticed the same improvement. The problem with that is most people will also change the spark plugs and wires too (at the same time) and give all the credit in improved performance to the new, performance coil. This is part of the logic behind the move on the newest cars to put a coil on each spark plug. Now the coil only has to fire once for it's own cylinder so you don't have to turn it on and off so fast and you never get to the point of oversaturation. You can go to much higher voltages and not worry about the ignition wires because the coil fits right on the plug. This is how they can get the motors up into the 6-8000 RPM range. In these applications they will now use a crankshaft trigger to keep the timming as accurate as possible and do completely away with the distributer because at these speeds and voltages it can't keep up either. You get crossover inside and inductive coupling from the wires, the spark will actually induce voltages in the other wires alongside and cause crossfire if the sparks don't jump inside the distributer cap and rotor. Once you start down this path it just gets more and more expensive and complicated. The moral here is the stock system is more than adequate for most of the people driving normaly on city streets. David Teitelbaum vin 10757 --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Elvis Nocita" <elvisnocita@xxxx> wrote: > > Bill, you'r wrong again ;-) > I will agree with you in some points, but not in the way you > try to explain it or think it is working. If you're interested > I can scan you some pictures of some books I have and that explain > the ignition system very good. With some simple physical laws > you will understand why there's never a higher voltage than about To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/