Aspire coil in dist conversion to Festy dist with external

[darkdan]

Alright, I finally found WTF a power tower was.

WhyTF didn't the MSD guy say anything about it?

Looks like $7 and I'll be in business.

[aithanmier]

yup. it's even a pita to find the darn things in their printed catalogs. they want the honda/acura boys to buy their modded caps, not do the job for 7 bux. couldn't even find this things listed with jegs, advanced auto's computers wouldn't order one for some damn reason, but i finally found em with summit. i'll be hookin mine up tomorrow night. good bye overheating coil problems!

[ericsmith32]

I've noticed since i've did the k&n and other things if I push my car hard for to long it starts getting sluggish. If i slow down or shut it down for a bit it stops. I wonder if it's the coil overheating?

[aithanmier]

yeah. thats what mine does. likes to do it on hills and such. coil over heats, module starts malfunctioning. for some reason if you turn off the ignition and flip it back on it'll usually start working correctly again...for a while. but i got my 2 power towers in the mail and i'm gonna pick up a spare cap to perform surgery on tomorrow.

[ericsmith32]

How much was a disty from picknpull? I think it's time to switch. I always save old caps so I already have one.

[darkdan]

Well get on it and get it figured out and take pics!

I want to install this stuff soon. I ordered the power tower thing from summit so it should be here this week.

[aithanmier]

heh i ordered 2 and got a free hat! woohoo. not enougfh time to get it working this weekend so you might get first crack at it. i did get the cap modified...word of advice...use a drill press if you have one. i was too lazy to go out to the garage, and now i gotta get another cap and try again.

[darkdan]

hmmmm, I have no drill press.

[aithanmier]

you can do it with a handheld but it would be more difficult.

[darkdan]

well, I went to tackle this today and now I'm F-ing stumped on where the neg coil wire is!

[ericsmith32]

I don't think there is one, just make your own. I think that's the reason for the bad coils.. poor grounds.

[darkdan]

So just ground that wire off my MSD box?

[ericsmith32]

That's what I was going to do if I ever installed a msd on mine. The heavier ground wires seem to fix my problems though.

[darkdan]

what are the black/green wires off the other plug for?

From my wiring diagram they look like grounds for something.

[ericsmith32]

The other plug is for the sensors.. I wouldn't think it would ground through that connection but hey I've seen weirder things in my life time. I looked at the 1.5L wiring diagrams when I thought about doing mine. Not the similar wire colors but close.