Coils for Ion

[H. J. Zivnak]

-----Original Message-----
From: garfield at pilgrimhouse.com <garfield at pilgrimhouse.com>
To: diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu <diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Monday, June 01, 1998 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: Coils for Ion



>I DID, but they're over in Oz, and I WOULD like to find a coil that has
>a donor car findable in the US. SomeOthem coils make me think they could
>be some Commode specials (hee, sorry mates, I couldn't pass it up), or
>whatever them cars are called they make down there under GM license.
>
I was Holden my water soooo long, I was thinkin of the Commode too!

>Just that I woulda thot this cain't be THIS hard in the US?? Argh,
>gnash. Man, if I could only get somethin like that GM SmartCoil, without
>the "smarts".>
>Gar


I had a nightmare last night. I dreamt that it was the 70s  again and
working on my 76 El Camino 350 with HEI that was about to make a Ford man
outta me. (Those things were famous
for arcing through the rotor to the advance weights and leaving you dead on
the road with no warning whatsoever.) I had put the coil in place in the
cap, pushed the terminals through the connector body, and then tightening
the 4 screws that held it to the cap, making sure that the 2 screws that
held the black wire from the coil and the one the connector were tight so
they have a good connection.........black wire from the coil???

Went to the local autoparts, Fluked a Borg Warner E 42 P and the resistance
between the red and yellow wires of the primary is 1.2 ohms and the
resistance between that black wire and the HT terminal is 8.41k.

This coil is open frame and has 3 wires (red, yellow, black) coming out of
it for whatever type of terminal floats your boat, and a   HT "pad" that is
intended to contact the distributor cap's rotor carbon through a spring.
Looks like you could solder a solid secondary wire directly to it, or rig a
terminal to it without to much effort.

By the way, the price of this coil was $36.72 brand spanking new.

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

HTH,

Joe