Coil swap?

[scott thomas]

I've done this on my turbos in the past, when I didn't have enough
money to pay for the later style cap and rotor. I had a new set of
early style wires I bought from GPR. Incidentally, these things have
done about ~250k across three cars and are still going. They're made
by Kingsbourne (?), with german (bremi?) connectors.

Anyway, all you have to do is take the coil end off the early style
coil to dist wire. Verify that the replacement "pin" style terminal
is good with a volt ohm meter. Screw it on to the wire. You may need
soap or armor all, but it works. You can al do another thing I did
which is to curl the terminals even more, so they fit tightly around
the pins of the proper style dist cap and coil. I've done it for 100s
of k's of miles.
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From: Huw Powell <human747 at attbi.com>
Sent: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 21:29:20 -0400
To: Michael Gough <mdg3369 at newtsplace.com>
CC: Quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: Coil swap?



> Okay...This is probably going to sound completely retarded, but
here goes...
> Engine in question is a JT code 5 cylinder. I've got a very nice
set of plug
> wires that are the "early" style, but my motor originally had
the "later"
> style wires on it. If I use the "early" style distributor cap,
they'll work
> fine, except pluging into the coil. My question is, can I just swap
the coil
> to one with the proper plug?

1. That doesn not strike me as a problem, since the "earlier" cars in
question have the same ignition system as the slightly "later" ones.
Meaning the coils are the same.

2. But look closely... as I recall, some of those "plugs" on coils and
such are compatible with both types of wire, aren't they?  In other
words, they have the little post in the middle, *and* a conductor area
surrounding the hole, which the old style wire will make contact with.

--
Huw Powell

http://www.humanspeakers.com/

http://www.humanthoughts.org/


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