ignition thoughts...

[wayne petty]

i just had a spark of an idea...   in car stereos to get the best power out of the amp... you install a pair of caps in the power leads as close to the amp as possible... since batterys are electro chemical .. it takes a few milliseconds to respond to the draw of the device..  in a car amp... the amp trys to draw the power to move the speakers... but since it is instantanious and batterys are not... there is a little lag time...  the cap fills with electrons that are available now.. instantly... not when the chemicals react in the battery...

so on a conventional HEI , duraspark, TFI..  i would think that a cap in the power line would saturate the primary side of the coil better at higher speeds......

i know that there is cap discharge ignitions..   i am thinking about helping the  rest of us with a few bucks worth of caps.....


i posted my question on grounding the dist housing to the heads to complete the high voltage circut for the spark... and there were several replys.. one that said they had build a motor with a lot of sealer on the head studs.. and one bank of spark plugs would not fire .. once he hooked up grounds from both heads to the dist housing  no more misfires..

again.. just a thought...

wayne...