Advantages of using a coil pack instead of a Distributor?
Jan 12, 2005 | 05:26 PM
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Advantages of using a coil pack instead of a Distributor?
As above on a cossie managed rs turbo
Jan 12, 2005 | 05:32 PM
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you can use a biger plug gap / better idle / you do away with things that brake down ie dizzy cap/ rotory arm / dizzy
Jan 12, 2005 | 05:37 PM
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Jan 12, 2005 | 06:35 PM
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Jan 12, 2005 | 06:58 PM
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how much does it cost to do this on a cossie roughly ??
Jan 12, 2005 | 06:58 PM
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Is it much work to change and roughly how much would it be to do this?
Jan 12, 2005 | 07:22 PM
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Cost me about £45 from the scrapyard for the Vauxhall coil pack.
Jan 12, 2005 | 07:25 PM
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Cost me about £45 from the scrapyard for the Vauxhall coil pack.
do u not own a big coat
Jan 12, 2005 | 07:27 PM
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Cost me about £45 from the scrapyard for the Vauxhall coil pack.
do u not own a big coat
or a empty tool box
Jan 12, 2005 | 07:30 PM
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Jan 12, 2005 | 07:34 PM
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vauxhall coil pack
, ever wonder
Jan 12, 2005 | 07:40 PM
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Cost me about £45 from the scrapyard for the
Vauxhall coil pack.
That'll be the problem then
Jan 12, 2005 | 07:45 PM
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My car when built had only 1 bit of the original Rover wiring loom in it.
It was this bit of the loom that turned out to be faulty not the actual coil pack.
It soon ended up in the bin and a new loom made by MEFmotorsport and has performed without a single fault since
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Cost me about £45 from the scrapyard for the Vauxhall coil pack.
zetec ones are £38 new
Jan 12, 2005 | 07:49 PM
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but thats a Ford bit
That would have been tooooo easy
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, ever wonder 
It soon ended up in the bin and a new loom made by MEFmotorsport and has performed without a single fault since 
but thats a Ford bit 
