petex19
True Classic
Years ago and I don't even remember why :hrmph: I disconnected and removed the ballast resistor and the little cannister thingy and just ran the positive wire directly to the ignition coil. I drove it for years like that and last year in an effort to increase the spark I purchased an MSD Blaster 2 coil #8203 which does not require an external resistor and have been using that.
I just got back from my first car show of the season and did lots of driving on the weekend and the car has ran better. It felt like the plugs were fouled so I replaced the plugs and didn't run better over 4000rpms.
I just re-installed my old coil again without the resistor and cannister and took it for a drive and it ran great pulling to redline in all gears :love: but there was occasional backfiring which I thought might have to do with the resistor not being connected? or it could just be from hundreds of miles I drove over the weekend never really going over 3500 rpms. and things just need to be cleaned out with a good hard drive.
Anyone else out there remove theirs using a coil that states that an external resistor is required printed on the front of it?
'PeteX1/9
I just got back from my first car show of the season and did lots of driving on the weekend and the car has ran better. It felt like the plugs were fouled so I replaced the plugs and didn't run better over 4000rpms.
I just re-installed my old coil again without the resistor and cannister and took it for a drive and it ran great pulling to redline in all gears :love: but there was occasional backfiring which I thought might have to do with the resistor not being connected? or it could just be from hundreds of miles I drove over the weekend never really going over 3500 rpms. and things just need to be cleaned out with a good hard drive.
Anyone else out there remove theirs using a coil that states that an external resistor is required printed on the front of it?
'PeteX1/9