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Old Aug 19, 2009 | 07:58 PM
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When I bought MY 02 Z06 a couple years ago it came with msd coil packs on a basically stock engine. On my way to a car show two weeks ago the car would start surging a bit when I would wind it up above 4,000 rpm's. I inspected coils and found one that looked like the outer part of it was separating. I installed originals that also came with the car and surging stopped. Has any one else ran into this ?
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Old Aug 19, 2009 | 09:44 PM
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I ran them for a while. The first one failed at under 1000 miles. I got rid of them because they were not reliable in my experience.
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Old Jan 17, 2019 | 07:20 PM
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hey guy there was a post I saw somewhere on here where a man was trying to figure out if he should install his msd and he had a lot of people saying yes. And no if u can help me find him I would appreciate it
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Old Jan 17, 2019 | 07:43 PM
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The MSD coils were JUNK.

The internal connections would become intermittent when warm and MSD knew they were crap.

I went through 4 and then sold them off after MSD refused to honor anymore warranty claims.
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Old Jan 17, 2019 | 09:07 PM
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Never heard anything good about MSD coils for LS
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Old Jan 18, 2019 | 09:30 AM
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Garbage waste of money. Bought them for my trans am and I avg about every 1-2 months 1 burning out.
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