Tim Gaines wrote:
>
> A friend just offered to sell me a new gold sport coil for
> my 1980 Spit 1500 with electronic ignition. The label on
> the coil says, "Use on contact breaker ignition without
> ballast resistor." Is there no way to use this coil on
> my car?
You might need a ballast resistor.
The problem is that the coil primary draws too much current,
which can burn out the ignition module in your spit.
The catch-22 is that with a ballast resistor you might not
get any better spark.
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Trevor Boicey, Ottawa, Canada.
tboicey@brit.ca, http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
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