Fw: ION-related IGN Comments & Coil Quest

[Bruce Plecan]

Subject: Re: ION-related IGN Comments & Coil Quest


>><steve at sun4c409.imes.com> wrote:
>>
>>>How about a five terminal coil?  I just looked at my motor (from a '91
>Caprice, TBI 350), and it has the
>>small cap HEI w/external coil.  The coil has 4 regular wires (two white,
>>one pink, one large
>>>gauge pink) on two weatherpak plugs, plus the high tension lead to the
>distributor.  What's up with that?

The dia goes, heavy pink to ign switch, light ga pink to ignition module
white for tach signal, and white to ign module.  The sec. ground, is
shown but not specified.  While only a few all the HEI gm systems
I show have a seperate ground for the coil secondary.
HTH
Bruce