Multispark stuff and other thoughts

[Jim Pearl]

His explanation was that he had a rotor that had two prongs on it. However, 
I could never figure out this might work. It would allow the spark to take 
the path of least resistance and not fire the other plug? This rotor was 
supposedly out of a 351 truck distributor..

Why fire two plugs? Waste fire! I'd love to take a shot at burning any 
unused fuel left in the chamber...

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>From: 	Edward Hernandez (R)[SMTP:ehernan3 at ford.com]
Sent: 	Thursday, March 28, 1996 11:09 PM
To: 	diy_efi at coulomb.eng.ohio-state.edu
Subject: 	RE: Multispark stuff and other thoughts

"My biggest interest would be to find a system that would allow me to
fire my EFI HO Ford motor on a waste spark system. I've been told by
a guy here that he's done this using some weird rotor out of another
Ford application that would fire the opposing cylinders."

Ford's waste spark system is distributorless, so your friend is 100%
BS. Why would you want to fire two plugs at once if you have the new
Accel system which is a single coil system? That would fire the coil
twice as often and would give you no benefits but would definitely
drop your spark energy!

Ed Hernandez
Ford Motor Company
ehernan3 at ed8719.pto.ford.com