Help mounting a Blaster coil

[jwinkler]

I think I've found a home inside the passenger compartment for the MSD 6AL, but I'm having a hard time finding a location for the coil.

I've got a stock Ford PS pump that takes up most of the room on the driver's side head. In fact, the only logical place (although it's kind of far from the distributor) is the battery tray now that the HyFire that was there has found employment as a paperweight.

When I had the 302 with an RPM intake, the intake had bosses that allowed the coil to be bolted beside the carb. The torkerII I've got with the 351 doesn't have any spare mounting points except the throttle cable mount. I've thought about sharing that, but it's a little close to where my fuel line runs.

The other option is along the fender side of the engine bay (either side, but probably beside and down from the mount point for the hood prop rod. Should the fender be able to hold a coil from the usual two-hole coil mount?

Thanks,

JLW

[Curt C.]

I have mine mounted on the driver side inner fender. You want to try and keep it relatively close. Too long of a coil wire can result in issues. Can you mount it behind the engine somewhere and run the wire along the intake manifold? If you were running a vic. jr or air gap, you could run it through the air gap. That looks pretty trick.

[jwinkler]

Curt -

Thanks for the reply - I went to your photo album, and had a shazam! moment when I saw the picture of how you mounted your coil in the engine bay.

Unfortunately, I've got cruft in the way on both sides of the engine bay - on the driver's side, the P/S pump hoses are in the way, and on the passenger side the stock CR overflow bottle is in the way.

However, I went back to another thread I started when the Mallory went south. Don posted some engine bay pics, and in those the coil is mounted right beside the distributor. I went back and looked again, and I think I can mount it there. However, there's a possibility that the bottom of the coil will rest against the water pump housing/timing cover. Logically, this shouldn't be a problem - the coil will be held in a bracket mounted to the engine, and thus subject to vibrations anyway, so I don't see how contact with the timing cover would be a problem. However, I'd still like to run this by folks with more experience and smarts than me for verification.

Thanks,

JLW

[Curt C.]

Should not be a problem for the reasons you cited. You could always put a piece of thin rubber between the two for isolation.

[HI Cobra]

I have a Blaster 3 coil that is mounted on the inner
fender, passenger side. It is just forward of the
valve cover and is only about 20" from the coil.
I'm not sure about the Blaster 2 but there was
a warning to install the 3 in a vertical position.
I have it low enough so there is no clearance
problem with the hood. My CR is a '99.

Flip