Hi all,

I have been working on my car today with Warren from this site and we have found I require a Ballast Resister, I have seen some on Ebay, and want to know if they are any good ? or will i require a specfic one? Its to fit a 1300cc crossflow

Burton have them for about 6 or 7 pounds + postage (and maybe vat i can't remember).

How much are the ebay ones? Is it worth taking the risk?

I know the pinto requires a 1.5 ohm resistor and the V6 essex the same. These are a thick coloured wire with bullet connections either end and the transit normaly uses a block wire wound resistor.
Not sure about the crossflow as the haynes manuals for 1300 cortina or escorts do not show.
When you leave them off it normally causes the points to overheat and melt the plastic heal of the points where it rests on the cam of the distributor centre shaft

crossflow has the thick wire as normal. Except on mine i sort of, errrm, accidentally errm melted it!

Was going to use the wire wound resistor once id figured out the ohms / watts / amps / amount of magic smoke it took & buy it from maplin. Will probably buy it from Burton now i know they do them.

alternative is to fit a non-ballast coil