burning out igniters........

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Nov 12, 2006 | 04:47 PM
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this is the fourth igniter I have gone through in a year. can't seem to find out what is causing it. ignition set up is a msd digital 6 with msd hvc (blue) coil. anyone has any ideas?
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Nov 12, 2006 | 04:57 PM
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Re: burning out igniters........ (b00st-l0gic)
what ecu are you running and is it a oem dizzy and ignitors or aftermarket?
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Nov 12, 2006 | 06:43 PM
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its the msd ignition, my friend was having a similar problem until he removed the msd, he said it overheats the igniter until it fails
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Nov 12, 2006 | 07:01 PM
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Re: (95dxb18c1)
funny you say that ive had an msd on my car for 3 years never had an ignitor go bad
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Nov 12, 2006 | 07:06 PM
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Re: (95dxb18c1)
Yea i Had a msd SC and blew out 2 ignitors in a year, I sold the MSD and never had a problem since, so Who the *** knows, but nothing else changed so i know it was the MSd in my case anyways
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Nov 12, 2006 | 07:08 PM
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yeah, i guess some people get lucky and some dont...
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Nov 12, 2006 | 07:16 PM
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Re: (95dxb18c1)
im just saying dont be short to look at other stuff thats why i asked the questions i did in the first place.
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Nov 12, 2006 | 07:28 PM
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Re: (vaporboy12)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by vaporboy12 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">im just saying dont be short to look at other stuff thats why i asked the questions i did in the first place.</TD></TR></TABLE>

oh yea most def. check out everything before ripping anything apart
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Nov 13, 2006 | 02:54 AM
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Re: burning out igniters........ (vaporboy12)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by vaporboy12 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">what ecu are you running and is it a oem dizzy and ignitors or aftermarket?</TD></TR></TABLE>

I am running a Apexi PFC with stock distributor and ignitors.
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Nov 13, 2006 | 04:14 AM
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Re: burning out igniters........ (b00st-l0gic)
Every day more and more evidence points to the fact that CD ignitions + turbo = bad. Some seem to have no problems but then there are countless stories of the car either running like crap or the CD ignition burning out. Personally I ran a DIS-2 for about 2 months before I got tired of the constant misfiring and put the ignition back to OEM.
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Nov 13, 2006 | 04:39 AM
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several of us in chicago (primarily obd0 dizzy's) have been killing distributors. i personally have had good luck with my current dizzy-king dizzy, but i killed another, and two others were breaking up badly,, and yet another old OEM left me stranded in the HOOD.

some older dude when i was stranded came up and said i needed to leave before it got dark. that sucked. haha
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