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General consensus on ignition coils & affiliated parts?
#1074539
09/30/14 03:32 PM
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Joined: Feb 2014
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Getting the Wheeling Fever
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Is there a general consensus on an upgrading to the coil, dizzy, plugs, wires etc for the 2.6? The engine is a fresh rebuild. Mild port & polished head, schneider springs, .020 over , weber 38,ceramic header, and 2 1/2" stainless exhaust no CAT, into a 6" Walker Ultra Flo muffler.
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Re: General consensus on ignition coils & affiliated parts?
[Re: Airsailor]
#1074540
09/30/14 03:50 PM
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Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 1,511
Body Damage is Cool
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With everything else that you've put into the motor I don't think it makes sense to leave the ignition system stock. I'd upgrade the plugs, wires and coil with high performance parts (I prefer ND Iridium plugs & Magnecor wires personally) and go through the distributor thoroughly, making sure the advance mechanism is working properly & installing a quality cap & rotor.
95 Montero SR 3.8 MIVEC, Advance headers, 2 1/2" exhaust, Magnaflow muffler, OME shocks & rear springs, 2" body lift, 3" tank lift, 4.90s, TRE front locker, factory rear locker, Roger Brown Rock Sliderz, 315/75r16 (35") tires, Sport big brakes
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Re: General consensus on ignition coils & affiliated parts?
[Re: ryany]
#1074541
09/30/14 04:41 PM
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Joined: Feb 2014
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Getting the Wheeling Fever
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I'm upgrading everything I can think of as long as it keeps it better than stock. I've been eye balling the Bosch Red Coil, it's getting a new distributor, cap, plugs and wires. I've heard the NGKs are the way to go with these?? I have a set of Taylor Thundervolt 8.2mm plug wires that came with it. But have never used Taylor before
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Re: General consensus on ignition coils & affiliated parts?
[Re: Airsailor]
#1074542
09/30/14 11:10 PM
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Joined: Feb 2005
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Body Damage is Cool
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There is significant concern in the air-cooled VW world about the quality of the Bosch coils varying widely depending on where they are manufactured (I think it was Spain vs Brazil). I'm not sure of the details, but some of the Bosch coils have an abnormally high failure rate. I'd do more research on them before I bought one.
95 Montero SR 3.8 MIVEC, Advance headers, 2 1/2" exhaust, Magnaflow muffler, OME shocks & rear springs, 2" body lift, 3" tank lift, 4.90s, TRE front locker, factory rear locker, Roger Brown Rock Sliderz, 315/75r16 (35") tires, Sport big brakes
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Re: General consensus on ignition coils & affiliated parts?
[Re: ryany]
#1074543
10/01/14 02:40 AM
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Joined: Jan 2001
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Web Wheeler
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On my last 2.6's, I used an Accel yellow SuperCoil, and it worked just fine, for about 150kmiles. I'm very fond of NGK plugs and wires, plain vanilla plugs work just fine. I've had problems with the unobtanium plugs. The center electrodes are very fragile. I had a glass bead blaster plug cleaner, and I'd pull mine and clean them up and regap about every 5k miles. I've used taylor wires in the past, the common vanilla kind, and they were decent wires, but not as good and reliable as NGK's. I had bad luck with Magnecors, fragile connectors, mostly...
On the accel coil, I bypassed the resistor and wired both the on in start and on in run to the coil +. You take the wire off the bottom of the resistor and move it to the + post. I found I had a much more stable idle and no spark fade at above 5k rpms.
Not responsible for advice not taken...
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Re: General consensus on ignition coils & affiliated parts?
[Re: fasteddy]
#1074544
10/01/14 04:49 AM
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Joined: Feb 2014
Posts: 48
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I'll look into the Bosch thing, thanks for the heads up. I've also looked at the Accel Superstock High Vibration coil. I've usually had good luck using Accel wire, but NGK seems to work good with Japanese engines.
Appreciate the feed back. This thing is costing me a fortune. And it was just a parts buggy. Oye
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