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Re: Points vs. electronic ignition 1800 1972

posted by  someone claiming to be John McRaven on  Mon Oct 15 03:07 CST 2001 [RELATED]

I bought a used XR700 setup on eBay for around $65. Installed it easily on my 544 after downloading some wiring diragrams from their website. At the same time I replaced the rather tired firewall mounted hard-cable wired coil and replaced it with a more powerful Mallory coil. Now it fires up more easily and doesn't slightly cut out at full throttle any more. Plus - my timing light showed that with the points the timing was jumping around a little - the light would fire back and forth a few degrees. Now with the electronic ignition the timing is rock steady. I've driven my car with this installed for around 8 months and ~4000 miles with no problems whatsoever.

John Mc





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New Points vs. electronic ignition [1800][1972]
posted by  someone claiming to be Thad Gilbert  on Fri Oct 12 17:46 CST 2001 >


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