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Toyota CoilOnPlug unit thermal limitations..

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:44 am
by Mr. Chips
Waiting for MegaJolt/C to build a CoilOnPlug setup on my Corvair air-cooled-6.

Anyone have any idea how reliable the toyota coils as mentioned http://www.autosportlabs.org/blog/?p=1318 are? I'd hate to put it all together, only to find out they melt at operating temps, or heat-soak etc..

I think I have a solid idea for trigger-wheel operation for the harmonic damper (or in-distributor, since the oil-pump drive must stay intact) mounted trigger systems - some measurements to work out, still, but this could be quite nice.

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:56 pm
by brentp
Unsure. Does the area around the corvair head experience significantly higher temperature than what is found on a water cooled engine? In any case, I think you might be the first one to try it out and report back :)

What about remote mounted LS1 coils?

Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 1:04 am
by DannyP
Remote mounted coil will be fine. 911 guys use COP, so I don't think that will be a problem, do some research to see what coils they are using, I am unsure as to what is being used successfully. I do know it is done though.

I have a regular EDIS setup on an aircooled 4 VW, but will be doing COP on a twin-plug 911.