some of this to you.. I might get into a little bit of spark 101 but I'll try not to.
Your first question is about Ford having a larger diameter dist cap. Larger isn't better! Unless you have more rpm and the spark in the smaller cap is jumping to the wrong plug wire.. Which is zackly what happened to the Ford engines. So they fixed a problem we don't have.
I guess you havn't been hearing what we have said. Coils may have the POTENTIAL to make more pressure than the factory coil.. BUT no coil makes more voltage than it NEEDS to jump across the gap in the plug. If our coils make the spark at 3500...SO DOES YOURS! Yours may have the capability to jump a .090 gap where it can use all that potential.. but in our rides it CANNOT use that potential.
Yes we can put the larger cap on our engines.. but WHY would we if what we have now will NOT be improved on.
Then you ask about several things.. The point of your question (as I read it) is that YOUR setup will fire where ours will not.. The examples you give aren't anywhere near correct.
For example you seem to think your ride will fire in a flooded chamber that ours won't.. Here again you are incorrect. If the chamber is so flooded that our spark doesn't occur..and the electricity is carried to ground by the wet spark plug.. SO WILL YOURS! A wet plug will carry anybodies coil pressure to ground without making a spark...period.
Most guys are taken in by using something new and different.. But they don't completely understand how a coil works. The coil starts making electricity and keeps making more and more until it can discharge across the plug gap. Since the gap is a static size ALL coils will make the same spark across a gap that they can jump across. No coil will make a "hotter" spark. No coil will use more voltage..
Oh yeah you seem to think your coil won't jump to ground on wet or failing wires and the stock one will.. C'mon Marty get it together. Electricity will go to ground in the shortest way possible. No matter which coil you try to swap out..bad wires are bad wires and wet wires are wet wires changing coils won't help anything.
Now there IS a reason to swap and get a different coil.. Find a YELLOW one. Yellow looks better under the hood.
Big Jim <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />
Ps. I just reread your post. You seem to think the Ford dist cap will be more reliable, put out less emissions and save fuel.. You are totally incorrect you your assessments.
By installing the ford stuff properly on your Jeep..The Jeep will NOT know you did anything.. You will have everything zackly the same..unless you didn't do the install properly..
BJ
