Yes, that's what the Crane literature says. However, Dan Masters told me to
go ahead and bypass the ballast resistor anyways, if you run a Lucas Sport coil
with the crane XR700. He said the Sport Coil is internally ballasted. Dan
has this set-up on his car.
My experience is that the Crane took some work to set-up right, but has been
trouble-free since. If Crane has rotors I should buy a few, instead of having
to file stock rotors to fit.
You're also supposed to increase the plug gap to say .30-.35 to take advantage
of the sport coil's spark potential, but since I run 9.5 compression with a TR5
cam, maybe I'm back at stock plug gap?
Regards, Bruce Simms CF1941UO
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 13:42:27 -0600
From: "Terry Geiger" <twgeiger@hiwaay.net>
Subject: Ballast Resistors and Crane electronic ignition
No ballast resistor is required with the XR3000. A ballast resistor is
required with the XR700.
Terry Geiger
'74 TR6
Florence, Alabama USA
http://www.ShoalsBritishCars.org/
>>
During the course of my education in the school of hard knocks on this
subject the
Crane people told a friend of mine that to use their product and for
the
Petronix ignition they recommended that the installation of a ballast
resistor to reduce overheating.
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