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Old 04-03-2005, 04:07 PM
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Regarding coils like the MSD Blaster's, etc. A friend of mine that road races Formula Fords and a Mustang in open track and Auto-X recommended moving the coil from the block to the inner fender panel to reduce vibration on the coil. He uses all MSD ignition on both of his cars, box, distributor and coil. All 5 of his buddies with FF cars have their coils remote mounted some with, some without MSD or other electronic ignition.
He told he had experienced coil failure in the past as had many of his racing buddies due to the vibration of the coil with it mounted on the block.
Sounded like good advice from someone that has far more experience than me ,so I removed mine from the block and mounted it to the inner fender panel on the drivers side...it isn't "Cobra correct" but I've had no problem so far with MSD failure.
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