Bad Parts....Part II

[Guest]

Shakedown run today after much tuning and prepping before the big car show and the little dinger was running really sluggish. An Echo outdragged me at the light! Went home, scratched my head, changed the Lucas Sport coil to a new one
(keep several) and it now runs like a spotted cat. What gives with a relatively new coil? Are parts not that reliable? Now if I can only go find that little Echo...he must have had nitrous.

Bill

 

[kindofblue]

The Echo must have had a K&N air filter, with a sticker on the window. That's worth five hp. Five more for a fart can exhaust....

 

[Trevor Triumph]

Do you suppose there was something besides the change in coil? In replacing wires, could the terminals sort of cleaned themselves? T.T.

 

[vrod]

I feel your pain man, but I bet your car looked better going down the road than that echo.

 

[Geo Hahn]

I had a Lucas Sport Coil fail last month with only 15K miles on it. Hope it was an isolated incident because I gt an identical replacement from the local Moss distributor and saw from the tag on the bottom that it was from the same batch (mfg 12/01).

OTOH, the coil failure was abrupt and complete. Other coil failures I've had showed up when the coil got hot and were misses, not sluggish. You might try that Lucas coil again (easy to just tie it to the mounted coil) and see if it was indeed the culprit.

As for your comment "keep several" -- translate that to Latin and you'd have a good motto for all Lucas ignition parts.