<VV> Got A Question

[Harry Yarnell]

Resistor in the circuit?

Harry Yarnell
Perryman garage and orphanage
Perryman, MD
hyarnell1 at earthlink.net
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Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 12:05 PM
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> The car starts and runs just fine when it is cold. 17 miles later across 
> the freeway, about the time the engine is fully warmed up, the car begins 
> missing, breaking up and will hardley pull away from a stop. If you floor 
> the accelerator the engine will just stall, you need to really feather it 
> to crawl along and begin picking up speed again. Not good. I have been 
> through all aspects of both fuel and ignition and what has seemed to have 
> "fixed" the problem is a new performance coil that allows the car to drive 
> about 98% normal. It still? seems like just a little bit of a miss at 
> times when fully warmed up but no driveability problems compared to before 
> w/ the old coil. In my experience w/ this thing, I found that the coil 
> gets extreamly hot due ofcourse to?its location. Yes my vent doors are 
> working fine.
> I tried several other old OE coils and they too failed.?I can't believe 
> that I am the only one haveing problems w/ old ignition coils getting too 
> hot. IF that is really the problem.