Re: Extra thingies on the ignition system

It's a ballast resistor and your particular coil should be designed to run 
with it.

Daniel1312

In a message dated 20/08/01 07:22:01 Pacific Daylight Time, mgagne@unc.edu 
writes:

<< One of these is what
 looks to be a porcelain-type resistor that is inserted in the lead from coil
 to distributor (b/w wire) and was bolted to one of the coil fasteners >>