<VV> Coil voltage

[Eric S. Eberhard]

If you want to look stock it is trivial to take the ballast resistor 
off and remove the internals and put in  a straight wire.  Then hook 
up as normal.  This is on early Spyders (62 I know, some say early 
63) only.  The rest have a resistor wire ... power comes into the 
main plug and goes to this resistor wire ... which travels all the 
way to the distributor in the harness and then loops back to the plug 
where it then connects with a regular wire that goes back to the 
distributor at 6 volts.  It is trivial (and required for Petronix II) 
to get 12 volts ... make a small wire with a blade on each end and 
simply jump the connection on both sides of the resistor wire.  No 
need even pull the plug apart, no need to string new wire, no need to 
remove the old.  The power will go through your jumper and you will 
have full power at the distributor.

Eric

At 10:00 PM 10/31/2011, you wrote:
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:01:47 -0400
> > From: Ramon Rodriguez III <corvairgrymm at gmail.com>
> > Subject: <VV> coil voltage/resistor
>  ...snip...
> > coil.  Want to make sure I've got the wiring right before I put on the new
> > coil and risk damaging it.
> >
> >
> >
> > Ray "Grymm" Rodriguez
> > Lake Ariel, PA
>
>    Ray- My early 63 turbo had a external ballast resistor on it- 
> the ballast resistor is (was- now running a distributorless 
> ignition) located on the rear frame rail. If yours no longer has 
> that resistor in place,but was supposed to, there should be a bolt 
> hole in the frame rail where it was mounted. As I recall,when I 
> tested the voltage on my car while it was running, it was 10 volts 
> or a little less. The externalframe rail mounted resistor was a 
> Spyder only set-up. Kevin Nash


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