OK all you vintage geniuses..........Help me out here........My legrand
F-4/F-jr with a BMW 750 cc engine has a high speed miss when hot and under
load. It does not do it for the first few laps.....Maybe even for most of the
first session...But then by the end of the second session it is real
bad....I'm running points, condenser and 2 blue coils........Since it seems to
be heat related I'm thinking it is not the points.....Right? .......I can't
think how getting hot would change what the points are doing.....Bad
assumption?....
Coils??
Here is the real question.......Can heat affect a coil?.......One of the coils
is sort of near the exhaust on one side... Could getting hot cause the coil
not to work well?....... I think so.......So today I made a pair of heat
shields to keep some of the heat off the coils.....
Here is the other question...Can you check or test a coil??...How?..Or should
I just replace them......They are not very old.
Then there is the condenser.........Same stuff....Would getting hot change
what it does?..........It is not in a "hot" area though...
The last time I ran the car at Thunderhill it was breaking up badly for the
last 5-6 laps.......Yet as soon as I can back in to the paddock I could rev
the engine with no break up.....Still hot, but no load.......
I'm entered in the Wine Country Classic in 2 weeks and I would sure like to
have it running well for that...
Any thoughts??
Thanks,
Jerry Burr
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