[Roadsters] early 67 1600 won't run

[Paul Bauman]

Some coils have an internal resistor like the Pertronix Flamethrower.

I've been using one of these on my 1600 without an external resistor for
going on 9 years now and haven't torched anything yet.

I dug around on the Pertronix website and found a troubleshooting
section to determine if your coil needs an external resistor.

http://www.pertronix.com/support/tips/default.aspx



Paul Bauman
Westminster, CA
67 1600



On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 19:56 -0800, Daryl Smith wrote:
You have me confused. If you are running points or a pertronix unit,
you 
> NEED a ballast resistor. Without it you will prematurely burn out the 
> points/pertronix.
> 
> If you have an electronic dizzy, then you should upgrade to a 12V coil
(your 
> MSD) so you don't burn out the stock coil without the ballast
resistor.
> I believe you can run the stock coil and ballast resistor with the EI
dizzy, 
> but you'll get a much better spark, and your car will run better with
a 12V 
> coil.
> 
> Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> Cheers
> Daryl