Chuck, I am running a Crane system on a TR6 and using their coil (LX 91) and
bypassing the resistor wire. i don't have a lot of time on it yet but so far
everything seems to be working great. I read somewhere and it sounded very
reasonable at the time that if you run a hot coil with the resistor wire, then
you get no benefit from the hot coil. I have two TR6s, one street and one
otherwise, and neither uses the resistor wire. Jim
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From: Chuck Arnold and/or Kathleen Kelley
<triosan@gmail.com>
To: Friends <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sat, August 13,
2011 9:36:53 PM
Subject: [Fot] Coil recommendation
I have a Pertronix
distributor in the TR6 race car with an Ignitor II
electronics. I do not have
a ballast resistor. This worked well in
combination with a Crane CCD box. I
had some issues that lead me to believe
the Crane was not working properly so
I removed it. the coil is a Lucas 1.5
ohm liquid filled model. I ran a
couple of sessions last year with no
problems, then had the distributor move
to way to advance during a run [nut
that held it not tight]. Next session I
burned a valve -- this was all
early ast year. I finally got the car back on
the track Friday. The first
session I had the ignition way too retarded so it
had a mid-range stumble
and did not everr make good revs. Abut 15 minutes
into the session the car
died. After aflat toe, I did a lot of looking,
determined the fuel system
was fine and the ignition was too retarded. Fixed
that befre the next
session. In that session the car ran really strong -- for
two laps and then
it died. Now I knew it was an ignition issue, so the first
thing I did
after the flat tow back was to check the coil. It was not
functioning so I
replaced it [not thinking as to why it died, or at that point
checking how
hot it was]. Next session with the new [old] coil had the same
results.
This time I checked the coil and it was way ho. I obviously should
have had
a ballast in this system. All of this happened at Portland. Car
died in
the same place each time -- just coming onto the strraight out of the
chicane. Alsways had enough power left to coast up the berm and behind the
wall so as to not hold up the sessions. The tow guys kidded that after 3
tows
in a day they owned the car.
So now I am ready get a new coil. Does anyone
have experience with an
Ignitor II and if so, have you run it with a 3 ohm
coil and no ballast? Am
thinking of getting the 60000 volt Pertronix
non-liquid filled coil, but no
sure what works best and am looking for
advice. I have asked Pertronix tech
support also, but will not get there
answer for a couple of days.
Thanks.
--
Chuck Arnold
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