<VV> Accel Coil

Mark Durham 62vair at gmail.com
Sat Jan 30 13:39:56 EST 2010


Hmmm, I had s similar situation with FlameThrower II coils, the ones you are
supposed to run with the Pertronix II ignition. I gave up after 2 and spent
22 bucks for a stock coil at Shucks and the car has run great. But then I
don't plan on racing the car, either. Mark Durham

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Smitty Smith <vairologist at verizon.net>wrote:

> Smitty says;  I am a little slow to learn some times so it takes me a while
> to get some things through my skull.  I have finally had it with Accel Super
> coils.  I have tried to get through to somebody in the company to reason
> with them but it seems acces is blocked.  Well I can't get to them but I
> think I can reach about 500 people right here.  When I first built Spike I
> chose to go with the primative but highly reliable and easy to diagnose
> points system.  I knew I would need lots of fire to keep the flame going
> under big boost so I got an Accel Super coil.  About a year later I had a
> coil primary burn out.  Maybe it's my "Bad" I thought so I checked the
> circuits and ballast resistor feeding the coil.  I was running a 1.5ohm
> ballast rather than the 1.4 that came with it.  I was able to get through to
> a (Quote)Technician(Unquote) that let me know in no uncertain tearms that it
> was my fault for not using the supplied Resistor.  I figured, what the hay,
> I
>  need to get on the track so I bought another coil.  This scenario was
> played 3 more times when I was running under normal operation around town.
>  Each time I took the blame.  I moved the coil off the engine where it was
> getting quite a bit of vibration and (could be) heat.  I moved it to an
> upright position in case the coil wire wasn't staying submerged in oil.  I
> changed balast resistors again droping the primairy input voltage to 6.1 in
> the run position.  A couple of days ago I was on my way home after about 15
> miles of interstate "when the top of the engine should have been nice and
> cool" and another coil primary failed.  That was number 5 and I will take
> every opportunity from now on to advertise that Accel Supercoils are Crap.
>  They are garbage.  Spike is happily running around now with a 40 year old
> GM coil which I suspect would last forever.  That won't hack it on the track
> though under heavy boost.  Well' see what we gonna do.
>
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