Geoff Healey held a standard coil in one hand and a Lucas Sports coil in
his other and asked me if I knew the difference?
No?
About $30 he said.
WST
Chuck Ciaffone wrote:
> Sorry if I am starting up a recent thread, but ...
>
> I just pulled the original coil from my 72 1275. I'm just
> sitting here starting at it, and wondering if replacing
> it is a good idea. Don't get mw wrong, Junior is running
> nicely right now. I just feel(!) that maybe the spark could
> be a little hotter.
>
> Looking thru old Moss and VB catalogs tells me that:
>
> A Lucas Sport coil is rated at 40,000 volts
> A Bosch Blue coil is rated at about 26,000 volts
>
> Silly question, I know, but is that a good reason to pick
> a Lucas over a Bosch? I mean, Brits don't drink warm beer
> because of Bosch refrigerators, now do they?
>
> Further, will either really be a noticable improvement over
> a stock coil (or, for that matter, over the original that's
> in there now)?
>
> Just wanted to know ...
>
> chuck
>
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> chuck ciaffone chuckc@ibm.net
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