As I may or may not have said before, was having some diffs with the spark blowing out at high boost and general ignition issues above 1.8 bar.

The cure - coil on plug, or coil near plug. I went coil near plug, and went for the most powerful coils you can get for a reasonable amount of money.

Theyre LS2 truck coils.

Coils arrived today, and couldnt resist test wiring them in and setting up the AEM.

They worked like a dream straight away - yeoooo

Few pics of the test install







Now I can put a massive gap on the plugs with no chance of stuttering!!

Have to make a bracket to hold them in now, and tidy the wiring.

how quick was it <1.8bar ?

I mean driving experience, not figgures.... and how far are you going to push it ?

Its starting to get dodgy - when it comes on boost in 3rd gear its kicking all over the road, 1st and 2nd gear are pretty useless tbh.

5th is a laugh - its as quick as 3rd used to be once youre over 70!

It would be rude not to try for 2.3 bar

lol...

I cant remember from your other thread, did you / were you going to stick bigger tyres on the back ?

tho I cant imagine it would make that much difference...


youll have to bring it past some time when youre over here so I can have a look / you can take me for a spin

Any idea in BHP/Torque yet?

For people without a bit of mechanical knowledge, what exactly is this, what does it do?  :whoops:

It means that I can have a good gap on the spark plugs, and not get it blown out at high boost

Quote from: soopahflyAny idea in BHP/Torque yet?

All in good time

It needs a run on the local rollers soon to get it sorted at high boost.

did a bit of tidying up. This will do until I finish making the bracket that will clip on to the strut brace. The cut up bit of silicon coupler is to stop annoying vibrating. Ill be sandwiching a slimmer version in with the new bracket.

Have gapped the plugs to 0.040 - running like a charm. Ive seen videos of these particular coils producing a good spark with a 1cm gap!

well its pretty obvious what youve done wrong there



the air filter is too small !

I know - couldnt quite fit the 60cm filter, so had to get 45cm

Will try and do some videos on the road (private of course!) when we get back from Hamsterley on Monday.