Sometimes when you turn the ING on the coils do fire off. That is normal but it really should have not blown a flame. Coils do fire off but it is controlled by the ECU.



-Rikki

 

i love my jacobs.....kicks ***.

 

I had a jacobs on an old honda I had for better gas milage. I asked them a few years ago about a setup for a rotary and they didn't have one at the time.

 

rotary performance sells the jacobs rotary pro-pack. i think that it is around 600$$



WOW!



either way, i think that this is the unit that i am going ot go with...



lou

 

I've heard good and bad about the Jacobs unit...BUT after seeing it 1st hand, I wouldn't hesistate on picking it up if the price was right. You have to get both the coils and igniter though since the jacobs igniter will fry the stock coils.

 

how will it fry the stock coils? ****. i need to hear as much as i can for the future purchase of this unit.

 

I use two Crane Hi-6's and two LX92 CDI Crane coils, one for each leading spark plug on my 566bhp 13B Turbo, I run 11 heat range plugs with premix + metering pump + water injection, this is hard **** to fire !!! The Crane set up is first class !



I have been running it now for almost 6 months (daily driver) and the only down side is that it is very hard on the ground electrode and the center electrode, it wears the plugs out about 10 times as fast compared to stock of transistor type non CDI ignition.



But if you are after performance and want to be able to fire a "cold" plug with out having a cold misfire or not take the risk with running to hot a plug cause your ignition is not strong enough then CDI is the go.



I realy love my Crane set up, I highly recommend that you use one box or cahnnel per leading plug, do not divide the energy over two plugs or coils.

 

High power (and most of the low power!) boys here are using the inbuilt igniters in the Microtech to fire off 4 or 6 individual DFI coils from Bosch (built especially for Ford for one of their common models) with no breakdown even up at stratospheric rpm..!

 

Keep in mind that I was asking the rep about my application. The 3rd gens computer controlled ignition may be a different story.



Side note - My damn MSD scared the crap out of me the other day (forgot to tell ya this one Rikki). I put the new oil cooler on and disconnected the trigger signal to the MSD so I could crank it without starting just to get oil through the new cooler and build pressure first. When I let off the key, the damn thing lit off the dual post coil and blew a 4' flame out the tail pipe in the garage!! I had to change my shorts! It was LOUD.



Any how, I've found that the MSD will sometimes send spark to the coil when the ignition is just turned on or off. Kind of a random thing, but it may not be good for the seals to ignite while sitting still ?[/quote]

the haltech fires the ignition when you turn it on, sometimes its at the right place to fire and move the engine



mike

 

So does the Microtech.