Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 21:03:47 +0000 From: Colin Stamp <colinnospamp.plus.com> Subject: Re: Opened DI Casette - For those interested
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:41:34 PST, mojavegnospamveg.iwvisp.com (Everett M. Greene) wrote: >After monitoring this thread for a week or so, I'm beginning >to wonder if the DI is a case of suboptimization. The >distributor, HV coil, and sparkplug wires have been eliminated, >but these were relatively inexpensive items and rarely failed. >These were replaced by multiple expensive items which are >just as prone to failure if not more so. There's roughly the same number of components in a coil-on-plug system as in a comparable dizzy setup. They both have roughly the same electronics. Coil-on-plug has more coils, but dizzy systems have the dizzy itself and the HT leads. I wouldn't be surprised if those two items don't hold first and second place for the component that's brought the most petrol engines to a standstill. Getting rid of those two is *really* worth doing. I remember canceling journeys in my first car (a '77 Mini) just because it was raining. I used to buy WD-40 in great big cans, and I wasn't the only one either. In winter it would sell like hot cakes. (It probably still does but I wouldn't know - I dropped out of the market when I got my first car with coil-on-plug ignition.) I really don't miss any of that. Mind-you, I might look after the system a bit better if I had one these days ;o) Cheers, Colin.