Hi Chuck,
I put one in the MGB and noticed a big improvement in performance. It
put some life into her again. She was getting kind of sluggish before I
replaced the coil with a sport coil. I would quess that it couldn't
hurt. The price difference isn't that great now.
Rick
52 MGTD, 74 B,58 A Coupe, 76 XJ12C (wife's), & Puddles (60 Frogeye)
Starting to look like a used car lot out in my driveway.
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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