At 11:02 PM 9/24/01 , John and Chris wrote:
>As it turns out the Accell sport coil that was only supposed to be a couple
>months and 10 to 15 miles old has gone bad.
I must rant:
I have often noticed that many if not most aftermarket parts,
even "high performance" ones, are not nearly as well made
as the OEM parts. More than once I have replaced a old
but still-working original part with a nice-looking new aftermarket one,
only to find that the replacement part ends up failing sooner than
the original one would have.
When I have looked at aftermarket add-on electronic ignitions I have
generally not been impressed. Generally, it seems that they are not
well designed in areas such as corrosion resistance, vibration resistance,
and heat dissipation. I remember my first experience working on a LBC:
it was a co-worker's MG that would not start. The cause was a poorly-
designed optical pickup in the electronic ignition basically falling
apart inside the distributor.
Thank you,
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
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