I bought the Mallory Chrome coil, It came with a new resister much
bigger than the factory one. My understanding is that with this new 70k
coil you can still use the resister and get the added spark and all the
goodies.
RIGHT ?
HUH
-----Original Message-----
From: nikolai jaremka [mailto:njaremka@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 7:35 AM
To: Spitfire Mail List
Subject: Re: up in smoke
well, what i did was went out and bought a 12volt coil and took the
ballast resistor out of the circuit all together. this will give you
a stronger spark and a little more power and cleaner burning.
---Jay Heaman <jheaman@woodstockpuc.on.ca> wrote:
>
>
> Just a question on the ignition circuit. I've recently replaced the
> distributor, wires etc, and cleaned up some of the grounding circuits.
> Everything has been fine for the past couple of weeks. I ended up
finding
> another issue (this was spooky considering all the group discussion
on fire
> ext.) The ballast resistor started overheating and eventually
smoking when
> the ignition was turned on. Other than replace the clutch master
last night,
> I did nothing else to the car. Does this indicate a short in the
coil? I
> have a strong electrical background, but not much experience with
this type
> of wiring.
> Anyway, before killing too much time tracing this out ( it was
midnight by
> the time I found this problem) I thought the group might have a
quick
> "been there, done that" for me.
> Best Regards,
> Jay Heaman
> '71 Spitfire
>
>
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