Coil upgrade

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Baz
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Coil upgrade

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My Spidy has a coil that is seated in an Aluminium heat sink....this is a fairly ugly unit and I was wondering if there is an improvement I can make to upgrade this unit. Perhaps something in an ignition upgrade. Has anyone done this, how did it work, any performance improvement, what brand etc.
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Baz (nearly finished a beautiful Spidy)
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Re: Coil upgrade

Post by htchevyii »

You can change to a MSD or Accel coil, but you're stuck with the heat sink, the HEI ignition module to mounted to it beneath the coil. I think it is mainly there to keep the ign module cool.
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manoa matt
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Re: Coil upgrade

Post by manoa matt »

You can take the aluminum heat sink to a shop to be bead blasted, it will look like new. Accel makes a coil for electronic breakerless ignitions that has the same primary and secondary resistances as the stock coil. It may put out slightly more than the stock coil. I think the MSD is an even higher output
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here's mine

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Bead blasted with an Accel coil & module.
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