Is my coil bad?
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Race Director
Joined: Apr 2003
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From: Tampa, Florida
Is my coil bad?
Primary resistence is 2.1 cold and 2.7 hot (200 scale)
Secondary resistence is 9.6 cold and 11.6 hot (200K scale)
Secondary seems OK but that primary seems off the scale.
Any thoughts or comments are appreciated.
Secondary resistence is 9.6 cold and 11.6 hot (200K scale)
Secondary seems OK but that primary seems off the scale.
Any thoughts or comments are appreciated.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Mar 2007
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From: Frederick Maryland
An oe type coil is all you need unless you do some racing or have an aftermarket high performance ignition system.
Check some prices on oe compared to MSD, Pertronix, etc., and see...you may find the hi-po stuff to be no more expensive. Buy them if you want, but for street use, I doubt if you'll see any improvement in driveability or performance over oe, just look flashier.
Check some prices on oe compared to MSD, Pertronix, etc., and see...you may find the hi-po stuff to be no more expensive. Buy them if you want, but for street use, I doubt if you'll see any improvement in driveability or performance over oe, just look flashier.
Last edited by Roughrider; Mar 31, 2007 at 08:30 PM. Reason: Wanted to edit my reply and add something.
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Not trying to insult you or anything, but I need to ask. Did your meter "zero out" to zero prior to the measurement? Some meters will have an ohm or two of offset on them, which either needs to be adjusted out or calculated out in the final measurement. Just need to know before we blame the coil.
Thread Starter
Race Director
Joined: Apr 2003
Posts: 19,352
Likes: 654
From: Tampa, Florida
Not trying to insult you or anything, but I need to ask. Did your meter "zero out" to zero prior to the measurement? Some meters will have an ohm or two of offset on them, which either needs to be adjusted out or calculated out in the final measurement. Just need to know before we blame the coil.
I'll go check it...please hold.
Set on the 200 scale it reads 1(blank)(blank).(blank)
Its an Actron digital multimeter.
Thanks,
Jim
