Accel coil

I'v used Accel coils only twice. Both failed and left me stranded. Now I use a Pertronix conversion and their flamethrower coil. It's been in there three years without problems. Of course, I only drive it

boB opined in news:413ea36a$0$74317$ snipped-for-privacy@news.usenetmonster.com:

Heheheheheeh... welcome to the wonderful world of aftermarket performance "snake-oil". {PLEASE note I dont put Pertronix in that category}

Guys hooted at me for installing the DurasparkII on my 65... but it never failed, and I knew that any halfway decent mech would recognize it if I ever had to have a shop work on it.

Well, at least I know it's not ME. Sounds like I'll try the Pertronix coil and keep that OEM coil handy :). I appreciate the input; as you probably know from my posts, I am just a hobbyist mechanic...

i've had 4 of them blow the oil out! they were all fenderwell mounted too. i went to the mallory promaster coil. i also tried mallorys unilite conversion kit, left me on the side of the road twice. at this point i'm still running points in my 289. Chip

Geez, from your and others' posts, it sounds like they really are crap. I will avoid them in the future.

BTW, installing my OE, 37- (on build date, prob. 38-year-old) coil has instantly stopped the mysterious surging problem no amount of carb tweaking could seem to solve, regardless of what Edelbrock told me, (brand-new Performer 600), and what my gut told me .. it ain't the carburetor. Hmm...

Go>>>>>Another freaking Accel Super Stock or Super Street what the hell ever

Chip Stein opined in news: snipped-for-privacy@posting.google.com:

Why not install the duraspark ... they're cheap and not hard to wire in?

Yep, seen it several times and the Mallory coils don't explode, but they mysteriously dry up and stop working.

I havn't seen any problems with Jacobs or MSD. I have a Jacobs system and havn't had any trouble.

I remember back in "the day" when Super Shops were all over the place the Mallory s*it was all the raqe. Crap never worked right. Unilite dist left me stranded a number of times on the 70 Chevelle I had. Had one of their Coils on the blown 92 Hatch I had and it failed the guy who bought the car on his way home :-) He found a local U-Pull-It and snagged a coil from a wrecked Taurus. Got him home just fine. I kinda felt bad about that one :-)

///Mike

Thanks for the input. I'm actually sort of glad it happened now, because as I said my mysterious surging problem was solved once I put in the OE coil. I think it was faulty from the get-go.

I've heard MSD makes good products. Interestingly, the parts store I got it from no longer carries Accel coils; they carry a similar street perf. MSD unit (hmm...)

Of course, their ohmmeter was "broken" even though the display worked and numbers popped up when he tried it on a good one, and the oil leaking out was "engine oil", and "they're supposed to slosh when you shake them". Uh-huh.

When I called him back to get the resistance specs he was supposedly looking for, "uhh... uhh... I actually need the book", and he said primary was secondary and vice-versa. "Well, what were you looking for?" BS answer. For that idiot parade and public embarrassment, that doofus's regional manager gets a call tomorrow...

Sorry, little parts-store Rambo rant there...

Jacobs is good stuff. His tech book is killer, but you have to read it a couple times over before it sinks in.

I installed a duraspark distributor,gm module & a ford efi coil on a friends 87 mustang(5.0 conversion) I've also converted serveral fords over to the duraspark ignition without any failures to date, plus if it goes out the parts are available at any auto parts store or junkyard.

Thanks for the recommendation...

After c> I installed a duraspark distributor,gm module & a ford efi coil on a