Aftermarket Coils
06-05-2003, 07:38 PM
#11
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the other guy i know with a tecII has an extra set of plug wires on the secondary post grounded to a marine grounding block on the chassis. Mine i have a lead soldered from the top of the post onto the mounting screw that attaches to the plate of the tec. I'm thinking of getting another set of wires and doing a more ridiculous like david's setup, but i haven't gotten around to it. Seems to work fine now, but i don't want to find out the hard way that i don't have enough grounding and my ignition is breaking up on the top or something.
06-05-2003, 07:58 PM
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These guys bought a set of plug wire ends, and used audio amp grounding wire cable, they bought a 6 ft roll and put standard crimp on eye hole ends on them, grounded them to the top of the block on the rotor housings. The stereo wire is cheaper, has more grounding surface and no problems yet. Scott had this on the HPV-1 I bought from him, and on his TEC III he has now, Beau also did this on his 20b setup with the TEC II. Took me about 15 mins to fabricate the wires for the TEC II.
06-05-2003, 08:59 PM
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the reason you need to ground the other set of wires is becuase on the electormotive set up the coils are meant for waste spark but you aren't using wastespark. or in other words both plug wires are on the same circuit, in a piston engine you can fire the other spark plug into the exhaust on the rotary you can only do it on the leading, but you still need to complete the circuit by grounding the extra lead
mike
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06-06-2003, 01:18 AM
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