[Fot] Ballasted ignitions

[Richard Gehweiler]

Some TR6's had a resistance wire (pink and white) to the coil. Be sure 
that you are not doubling up on the resistance, that could cause this 
problem.

Richard Gehweiler
Stonefield Vintage Garage, Ltd.

On 4/14/2011 12:24 PM, Kramer, Robert wrote:
> I'm hoping the knowledgeable folks on this list can help me figure out a
> problem on our Lemon's TR6. We built the car out of a pile of scrap so we have
> pretty basic stock stuff. We are running a stock distributor, points,
> condenser, new cap, new upgraded wires, stock type non ballasted coil. We made
> up a simple wiring harness and I felt that it was important to ballast the
> ignition circuit, so I used a Mallory resistor in line to the coil. The engine
> runs extremely well up to about 5 grand and then starts spitting and coughing.
> We have tried various timing settings yet we can't get it to run as well as my
> stock TR6 in the high ranges. There is a chance that the cam isn't timed right
> as we didn't touch that part of the engine. We have plenty of fuel pressure
> too. Could the ballast be causing this malady? I use the same setup in my
> racecar, but with a much better coil and a Mallory distributor.
>
> Bob Kramer
> Texas Rental Manager
> RDO Equipment Company
> 16415 N. IH 35  Pflugerville, TX 78660
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