View Poll Results: Can You Have Too Much Spark?
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Can You Really Have To Much Spark ?!?!?!?!
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Can You Really Have To Much Spark ?!?!?!?!
OK guys, if you have read my post in other threads you will have seen i have been having some issues with a miss or a slight stumble, well i had bought a MSD blaster coil and then bought a hypertech coil and still had the problem. Well last night i decided to put the AZ stock coil back on and no more problems. SO can you have to much spark? i thought more the merrier but i guess i was wrong. Has anyone else had this issue before or is it just me? Did i buy 2 bad coil's? Please tell me what you think guy's
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OK guys, if you have read my post in other threads you will have seen i have been having some issues with a miss or a slight stumble, well i had bought a MSD blaster coil and then bought a hypertech coil and still had the problem. Well last night i decided to put the AZ stock coil back on and no more problems. SO can you have to much spark? i thought more the merrier but i guess i was wrong. Has anyone else had this issue before or is it just me? Did i buy 2 bad coil's? Please tell me what you think guy's
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X2^^^ it will show the weakness in the rest of your system, like you have bad wires etc... I've seen a new coil kill the short opti to coil wire in a few weeks on Patrol cars a bunch of times, we used to buy just 10pks of the short wires back in the day...
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i had the MSD Blaster Coil and there has been too many cases where the Coil Arc's off to other things it did with mine and i could see it arcing at night...i did my research and seen that a lot of LT1 owners had this same problem with aftermarket coils.
I went back to the stock coil and it was fine.
Stay with the stock coil!!!
I went back to the stock coil and it was fine.
Stay with the stock coil!!!
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I had a msd coil that cracked and arced off the holder and a Az coil replaced it fine.
As for your questions your plugs will only pull what is needed to jump the gap. We have ran test at school to prove this between a Stock Vs Msd coil and the firing lines were the same
As for your questions your plugs will only pull what is needed to jump the gap. We have ran test at school to prove this between a Stock Vs Msd coil and the firing lines were the same
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...or you need new wires. The coil is not to blame. I have been running an MSD Blaster coil and 6A for 10 years without a lick of trouble. AC-Delco wires, too. No direct replacement aftermarket coil is going to give you "too much" spark.
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Capricemgr and a few others have stated that the aftermarket coils, specifically the MSD was being talked about, don't have a strong enough spark in the higher RPMs compared to stock.
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This isn't really going to contribute to the thread. It's not arching, unless you're talking about McDonald's. In terms of electricty, the correct terminology is arcing. That's just a personal pet peeve of mine.
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ZZZZZZBlah blah blah..... who cares this isnt grade school. Yes he could over power his current igintion system. So yes it is possible to have to much spark. Doest matter if its the coil or the wires or the engine. Fact is MSD coils can create so much spark it will arch to whatever to next metal surface is.
In the end the answer is yes.
In the end the answer is yes.