I don't know what your distributor looks like. I've never seen a
distributor that has an internal coil. So I speak somewhat out of
ignorance. Can you redirect the wiring inside your distributor that
normally goes to your internal coil, to an external coil? Normally the
high-voltage connection from your coil to the center of the distributor is
ignition wire; usually pretty large diameter stuff and very specialized.
You would need to replace whatever short section of wire there is inside the
distributor with a longer wire, and somehow (don't know how without looking
at it) route it to your new external coil.
But all this supposes it's actually smart and useful to upgrade your
ignition. If your engine is fairly stock, normally aspirated and running
stock compression, you probably will see absolutely NO real benefit from
doing this. So you would be spending hours (and have already spent some
time just posting here) doing a pain in the ass upgrade that buys you
nothing.
I do know a little about this stuff. I haven't tinked around too much with
Nissans but I have a lot with other cars. Older cars having uneven fuel
mixtures (because of poor manifold routing or poorly adjusted carbs), higher
compression ratios and/or blown (as in supercharged) engines can benefit
from higher voltage coils and MSD ignitions. Your Nissan...there's probably
a lot better things you can put time and money into that will translate into
palpable performance increases. Try those things first, is my
recommendation.
-----Original Message-----
From: Luis Humberto Felice [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 9:01 AM
To: Sentra Mailing List
Subject: Re: SML: Re: Re: Ignition Coil
I DIDN'T FIND IT, I CHECK IN MANY PLACES!!!!!!!
AND IN MY COUNTRY THE ENTIRE DISTRIBUTOR KIT IT'S TO EXPENSIVE AND I THINK
WHY I SHOULD BUY IT IF I CAN REPLACE DE COIL ONLY.
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