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| kart54 |
 Jan 17 2007, 03:04 PM
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Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 544 Joined: 27-January 05 From: Ventura, California Member No.: 3,520  |
I posted this in the garage section and got no response so I thgought I would try here. Working on the race car last night I flipped my main power switch to test something else I was doing. After a couple of minutes I heard the oil in the coil making noise. When I jumped out of the cockpit and went to the engine compartment I found the coil was so hot it burned my fingers.
What will cause a coil to burn like that? Is it a fault within the coil itself or something external? The coil was an MSD blaster 2 and my ignition is a Crane XR700 optical with rev limiter. I went out today and got a new coil but I want to make sure I'm not going to fry this one as well by just installing it. Anything I should check first? Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks Randy |
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| kart54 |
Jan 21 2007, 11:43 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 544 Joined: 27-January 05 From: Ventura, California Member No.: 3,520 |
It Lives. The new coil is in and the car fired right up. Nice to hear the open exhaust again (wife didn't appreciate it and neither did the neighbors but I don't really care at this point.) I'm amazed, you guys were right. I'm not amazed you were right just that the optical trigger managed to get in just the right position to fry the coil. It was completely fried toooo!!! when it came out it fell into two pieces.
Thanks again for all the help!! Going out to defend the title this year and race a few national races as well. Car seems to be ready to go. All the new stuff is in. I'll tell ya what, it's hard to get in and out that little bitty window opening with a full containment seat installed but the new seat is very comfortable. Can't wait to try it on track. Any of you so cal porsche guys make it to an SCCA race look me up. For the first time with this car I'll have a pit crew this year so that should mean a little more free time. Car has a new paint scheme on it when I get a chance I'll take some pictures and post them. As I'm writing this there is one of the new VW adds on. "unpimp my ride" Love em. very funny Randy "Car 54 Here I Am" G prod 1.7 liter fuel injected Porsche 914 |
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kart54 Coil frying? Jan 17 2007, 03:04 PM
Matt Romanowski I have no experience with the crane system, but is... Jan 17 2007, 06:22 PM byndbad914
I posted this in the garage section and got no re... Jan 17 2007, 07:09 PM McMark I'll have to disagree and post an alternate ex... Jan 17 2007, 10:19 PM byndbad914 :agree: I edited that a few times trying to make ... Jan 18 2007, 04:01 PM McMark :thumbsup: Jan 18 2007, 08:18 PM kart54 Thank you both very much for your responses and yo... Jan 19 2007, 03:26 PM
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