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Old 10-12-2008, 08:45 AM
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Are they worth getting and do they give you a hotter spark.I had a vacume leak and I checking out my vacume lines and noticed my coil pack harnesses are real brittle, there 10 years old. So I figured just get a new set.
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Many people are running/using stock coils and are making great power, 800+ rwhp. Unless you can get a great deal on them, there is no real need to upgrade to the truck coils.
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All my stock coils are still fireing what do you think just buy new harnesses.
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Originally Posted by peterock98
All my stock coils are still fireing what do you think just buy new harnesses.
98 coil harnesses are unique. I bet if you unwrapped that black tape like stuff, the wires would be fine. Then you could re-wrap them in some new material.
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It's got a silver wrap on the wires I removed some.
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Best thing to do is get the car done, and then if you have issues with the spark getting blown out, then upgrade to the truck coils. That being sayed, I jumped the gun and got them anyways, because I witnessed by buddys car blowing the spark out on the dyno. The truck coils where his fix. I didn't want to schedule a dyno session/tuning for my own car, then have to do it over because of a spark issue.
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Basically everyone said no need for truck coils on my car.




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