coil packs

[Guest polarity]

I saw someone had put dual coil packs in their car to replace the distributer (still with the inline 6 engine).. any ideas what all was involved in this? Any pros/cons to doing this conversion

 

Billy

[Mudge]

To replace the distributor? Coils dont replace distributors, and very often the most serious mods for aftermarket computer setups may require modding a distributor or using a crank trigger setup, but I dont know that I've seen a setup without a distributor of some kind yet.

[Pop N Wood]

Electromotive is just one example of a coil pack you can use to replace your distributor

 

http://www.electromotive-inc.com/products/hpx.html

[SleeperZ]

I saw someone had put dual coil packs in their car to replace the distributer (still with the inline 6 engine).. any ideas what all was involved in this? Any pros/cons to doing this conversion

 

Billy

 

Basically you need an aftermarket EFI computer that supports coil packs (ie: a separate ignition signal per cylinder or cylinder pair). For an inline 6, the most common setup is a triple coil pack, where two cylinders fire at once, one on the power stroke, the other on the exhaust (wasted spark).

[Mudge]

Electromotive is just one example of a coil pack you can use to replace your distributor

 

http://www.electromotive-inc.com/products/hpx.html

 

I hope thier other products work better than thier short lived LT1 offering It still retained the distibutor for timing, and it would fire out of phase every once in awhile as it lost timing, crappy setup.