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well i've had a couple coilpacks die recently and a couple people telling me the setup on the rb motors are prone to failure due to copping all the heat from the engine and dont generate a very strong spark. so i've started considering alternative spark setups.

has anyone had much experiance in using different coilpack setups with the standard ECU? such as using external camira/bosch coils and leads and setting it up as a wasted spark system?

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I agree with Joel, our R32 GTST has 170,000 k's on the original coil packs, the GTR has 142,000 on the original coil packs, the Stagea has 102,000k's on the original coil packs. The old R32 GTR still had its original coil packs and it is close to 200,000 k's now.

Personally, I haven't had a problem :(

My standard coils were working fine, but with higher horsepower applications then the SplitFires are the way to go:D Series II GTS-t coils are pretty crap though, as they have the modules inbuilt, and are much more prone to problems.

I left the the R34 GTT of the original list because it hasn't done that many k's. It has 265 rwkw and it's coils packs are std, maybe I am just lucky with them.

On the race cars we use a Motec CDI with Mercury outboard coils packs, because they are designed to work with CDI's multiple discharge.

:(

To avoid coil pack failure I took the upper belt cover off and used a hole saw and file to make a tear drop shaped opening to the cam belt area. I then opened up the little ventilation fins in the rear section ( fins vent into the coil pack area / valley ) so I now have air flowing through from the outer most part of the fan, through the hole I made, between the cam pulleys, through the fins and down the valley taking some heat away from the coils then venting at the rear of the valley cover. ( Hope all that makes sense ).

Should work on any RB I would guess.

I've yet to finish the job off with a nice piece of mesh to stop any nasties getting in but it seems to have worked as I've never lost a coil pack in my R32.

As Ed said my ones died ~80,000Ks back when it was N/A and only proved annoying at idle, when the turbo went on at 110,000K's it was all too noticable....the current R33 ones I'm using seem to be OK though (fingers crossed)

I did actually consider setting the packs up in a corner of the engine bay with spark leads going to the cylinders.

From what I've heard, the splitfires are the go.

There was an R31 with a worked RB20 I saw after the Drift Nationals with 6 older style cylindrical ones on a plate on the firewall with leads to the plugs. Not sure about the electronics behind the set up unfortunately..

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