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Ok my wiring conneters are starting to break up on my coil pack and are looking at getting a new harness made up, I can see this is going to cost some serious money. My question is can you run a single coil on a red top RB20det with high tension leads instead of bloody expesive coils packs as I think one of them has gone as my car seems to be not running on all cylinders. Help please!!!!

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the little black box that sits on the spark plug cover is an electronic distributor of sorts isnt it? surely you could use this. If you connected the the triggering wires that go to your coil packs to external regular style coils then run the spark plug lead from that to its assosiated plug, would this not work? fair enough the 6 regular style coils would take up some space and look a bit ugly but surely it can be done.

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R31Heaven was asking if a SINGLE coil could be used instead of 6 individual coils. The answer is no as kjb_r33 said. The little black box handles low voltage only, you cannot use it on the high-tension side to perform the function of a distributor cap/rotor assembly needed for a single coil setup.

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henros - fair enough he asked one coil, i just read in another forum he wanted to get rid of the original coil packs and ive seen the 6 regular coil thing done. also since they would only be triggering the coils, the amplifier outputs wouldnt be dealing with the high tension side of the coil. all that your effectively doing with what i am saying is taking the coils out from between the cams and away from the heat. As slip mentioned commodores have multiple coils in one pack, and id gather you could again use the existing amplifier box to trigger the coils.

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