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Looks janky coil question.

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I am going to order some bilstien dampers from JT and figure I would ask if I should replace this coil that's on it now. It works engine starts right up and runs ok. This is my first roadster so this coil is all I have ever known. Looking to get the integrated resistor coil on JT's website. I have never seen this coil setup before.
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I’m not familiar with that coil either. Do you have a standard point ignition or something else?

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Habitat.pat wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 12:17 pm I’m not familiar with that coil either. Do you have a standard point ignition or something else?

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It looks like ei system. When I bought the roadster it came with recipes for east coast roadster dizzy
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Typical mid-80s Nissan coil found on most of their products of that era. Super reliable.

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My $0.02 - If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.
If it starts up fine, keeps running and there is no misfire directly attributed to it, it’s working 😉
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spriso wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 12:45 pm Typical mid-80s Nissan coil found on most of their products of that era. Super reliable.

https://www.autozone.com/ignition-tune- ... 849848_0_0

That's good news! Really looking for reliability for this roadster. Thanks for the quick info!
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More designed for ecu controller ign .
Some of the 80s one lasted like 40 k careful around the wires they can be high amps, were setup really for Platinum / irridium plugs
Problem with irridium plugs on carbed eng if it get s flooded , they foul easy your not going to get it going before pulling the plugs
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For Iridium, I like the "Denso (4709) IW20TT Iridium TT Spark Plug". I felt they were a tad better than the "NGK (6427) BPR6EY V-Power Spark Plug".
My 2 cents. Might as well match the plugs to the coil :)
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