Coil on plugs

[Swanny]

Hi all,

well i finally bought a v8 :-) :-)

after driving a couple of hundred miles perfectly 051 started to hesitate and struggle under load. limped to Austins and Nick diagnosed a dodgy coil. he also suspected that another may be about to follow it.

He recommended the MSD blaster coil on plugs as a good upgrade from standard but they are quite expensive. So i guess i have a few questions relating to this:

how many of you use the MSD product? is it worth the upgrade? do you know of any good sources in the UK for these? all the ones i could see were in the states.

if anyone has upgraded does anyone have a few second hand standard ones they'd like to sell me?

or does anyone have a preferred source for stock coils?

thanks

paul

[colintf]

Hi and welcome
you could try Brian at Dreadnought for the std COPs

:cool:

[greeners]

Paul

If you look on ebay, there are a few pattern ones available, last one i Bought was £30 and was fine. It's the same across most of the Ford V8 range..

[greeners]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ROVER-75-SALOON-4-6-V8-2004-TO-2005-IGNITION-COIL-12496-/181219085788?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item2a317fcddc

First one I came across

[bernard lpg]

Both Max260 andd I have fitted Accel COPs to our cars. Obtained from Amazon and are not expensive.

[Swanny]

i think i'll be going after market, probably for the ones on ebay. dreadnought and rimmer brothers want £143 +vat each for oem ones.

[scooter]

Buyer beware you get what you pay for if the unit does not match up with the same electrical loads/impedance you can burn out the drivers in the ecu.

[Herman]

i think i'll be going after market, probably for the ones on ebay. dreadnought and rimmer brothers want £143 +vat each for oem ones.

Some alternatives here http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/x,carcode,1415089,parttype,7060

[BigA]

I have some standards taken off the car at 17000 miles but I don't know what to ask for them - yet. I'll do a bit of research and find out what's reasonable if you like

Where are you located?

[AndyG]

how many of you use the MSD product?

is it worth the upgrade?

do you know of any good sources in the UK for these?

Yes, I have them.

I believe so. Difficult to test. More bang = more power.

Brian at Dreadnought.


Mike (zan110) ordered some low priced ones from China... They never arrived.

[AndyG]

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[Nich]

051 I believe Andy.

Nich.

[Swanny]

yes 051. i did check with dreadnought but they told me in an email that they only used standard oem parts.

[AndyG]

051 I believe Andy.
Nich.

yes 051.

Thank You, I will update lists (when I can)

[gignwah11]

So which ones did you buy in the end?