Advantages of using a coil pack instead of a Distributor?
12-01-2005, 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
12-01-2005, 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
12-01-2005, 05:37 PM
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12-01-2005, 06:35 PM
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how much does it cost to do this on a cossie roughly ??
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Is it much work to change and roughly how much would it be to do this?
12-01-2005, 07:22 PM
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Cost me about £45 from the scrapyard for the Vauxhall coil pack.
12-01-2005, 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
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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
12-01-2005, 07:30 PM
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12-01-2005, 07:34 PM
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vauxhall coil pack
, ever wonder
12-01-2005, 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
12-01-2005, 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
12-01-2005, 07:49 PM
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but thats a Ford bit
That would have been tooooo easy
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12-01-2005, 07:27 PM
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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 
