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Coil Upgrade...

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81 dl I'm looking to upgrade my coil, I'm having a slight hesitation problem and a miss with good compression fresh wires and cap and rotor, Could be my rockers need adjustment? but I'm thinking upgrading my coil...

I work at a CSK Speed Shop, AKA Fancy Shucks... My options are

 

1. Accel (leaning that way.)

2. Mallory, Expensive (but Proprietary?)

3. MSD

 

Along with that I'm gonna upgrade my wires as well with matching wires.

 

I'm thinking About doing the Fuel injection conversion at some time in the near future so I'm thinking about something that would be compatible upgrades. Also I need to find a Rear brake adjuster that works so I can actually have decent brakes.

 

Anyhow thanks in advance for your help

I for one am partial to msd.I have run the msd blaster coil before and now I have the msd blaster ss coil.Both very good coils.

1 vote to avoid Accel - I had bad luck with both the coil and the wires. The coil died completely in about 6 months, and the wires kept burning out. I'm back to OEM coil and NGK wires.

Before spending money on a coil I would check my distributor shaft/bushings for play. Then put a vacuum guage on it and see if that tells you anything.

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Good distributer... I don't know about the advance??

How do you install a performance coil on there, electrically? I hear you have to use resistors and stuff?

I have fine luck with my Accel. I think you have to make sure you get the ones made state-side, not in mexico, or wherever. but i've MSD is good shtuff; go witht that!

How do you install a performance coil on there, electrically? I hear you have to use resistors and stuff?

 

There is no such thing,Strictly for the suckers.

Dain']I have fine luck with my Accel. ...

 

Me Too! ... I Has the 8140 High Vibrations Coil' date=' the one that hasn´t Oil, just Epoxi inside... I has it installed in my EA82 since the 90´s, and it Works Very Fine! Just Plug & Play![/color']

 

See: http://go.mrgasket.com/ProductDetails.aspx?brandId=3&productID=8053968&majID=545&minID=5456&selection=&minselection=4

Me Too! ... I Has the 8140 High Vibrations Coil, the one that hasn´t Oil, just Epoxi inside... I has it installed in my EA82 since the 90´s, and it Works Very Fine! Just Plug & Play!

 

See: http://go.mrgasket.com/ProductDetails.aspx?brandId=3&productID=8053968&majID=545&minID=5456&selection=&minselection=4

 

 

Key phrase - since the 90s

 

The ones made in the past few years are crap - verifiably crap.

I had a Mallory Promaster on the Brat.. Worked great for a Ebay cheapy, but never done anything extra in the way of ponies. It was the model just before they went to internal resistors, forgot what number it was though....

Key phrase - since the 90s

 

The ones made in the past few years are crap - verifiably crap.

Yes, it´s True! ... I Asked a Friend who had Problems with his Accel Coil, he said the one he Purchased, said "Made in Mexico" ... Not like Mine... and it Exploded in the Firts Week... Damagin´ pait and hoses on the Engine´s Bay of his Nissan Almera...

Yes, it´s True! ... I Asked a Friend who had Problems with his Accel Coil, he said the one he Purchased, said "Made in Mexico" ... Not like Mine... and it Exploded in the Firts Week... Damagin´ pait and hoses on the Engine´s Bay of his Nissan Almera...

 

 

Yup. Not an uncommon tale. I think mine lasted a whole 10 months. Blew up 70 miles from home while out camping in the middle of nowhere with my wife and kid.

 

Thankfully, a friend whom I met through this board when I moved to TX was kind enough to come down there at midnight with another coil.

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