[Vintage-race] Coil Firing, was "drivers wearing watches"

[Elton E. (Tony) Clark]

On 5/27/07, Carl McLelland <carlynneracing at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>
> Regarding the string earlier about electrical problems. It's my
> understanding
> that if the wires to the coil are backward then the spark is generated
> from
> the body of the plug (which is the ground completing the circuit) to the
> electrode; thus, a tremendous amount of ohm resistance.


*I once owned a Citroen 2CV,  ( I hear you but it was only for comic relief)
and the operators manual advised one to "rotate" the plugs between it's two
cylinders to equalize electrode wear since each plug had it's own coil and
one fired from the center and the other to the center.  Only one of a
thousand laughs provided by the 2CV.*
*Tony in Texas*