Well, I'm real confused now. For a '72 TR6, do I remove the wire or
add another wire? And where is this resistor. It doesn't seem to be
noted on my Bentley's. The (D)PO painted all the wires black at the fuse
box, so is there another way to find the "white wire". What should I gap
the plugs?
Thanks,
Jeff N.
At 10:06 PM 4/21/97 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 97-04-21, Bill Wood wrote:
>
><< To all those who have fitted a Lucus Sports Coil, what is involved in
> fitting the +12 v wire to the coil? I fitted the Sports Coil in 1989
> and just last week learned from this list that I am now running a
> ballast in the wiring harness and in the coil! Surprisingly, the car
> has run just great for all these years. >>
>
>Bill:
>
>There has been a lot of learning going on since this thread was first
>started! The Lucas sports coil is rated, if I am not mistaken, at 40,000
>volts output, compared to about 20,000 for the stock coil. With the ballast
>resister, though, you are only getting approximately 20,000 volts, the same
>as your stocker. Thus, the car runs as it always did, which was pretty good.
>In other words, you are not getting the extra power you paid for! (I am only
>guessing at the actual output voltage, but it will be considerably less than
>the 40,000 volts).
>
>If it runs OK, I wouldn't change anything (there is definately no harm being
>done). However, if you would like to have the extra spark you paid for, just
>add an additional wire, connecting the + lead of the coil to the white wire
>at the fuse box, while leaving the wires that are already there in place.
>Keep in mind that the spark plugs will need to be gapped for what ever
>voltage you wind up actually using. The gap is wider for the higher voltage.
>
>I guess this just goes to show that for normal street driving, things are not
>as critical as we might think.
>
>Dan Masters,
>Alcoa, TN
>
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