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Mark Allanson - 20/9/03 at 05:22 PM

My 2.0i Pinto has a steel coffee cup thing wrapped around my distributor (well it did have!).

Will I experience any ill effects due to the fact it is now in my wheely bin? There was not enough room in the engine bay for it (really!)

Peteff - 20/9/03 at 05:34 PM

It's not for your benefit , it's for everybody else's. It's for interference to radio equipment but the leads are suppressed anyway. I slung mine and it hasn't affected anything but I don't have a radio in the locost, come to think of it there's not much of anything in it.

yours, Pete.

Mark Allanson - 20/9/03 at 06:23 PM

Thanks Pete, I had visions of plasma torpedoes bouncing around the inside of the engine bay!

Ben_Copeland - 20/9/03 at 06:43 PM

Might affect the radio of the car you just zoomed past though lol.

Well, more likely to do that if you didn't have suppressed leads... so i should think it'll be ok

Mark Allanson - 20/9/03 at 06:58 PM

There are also some very short extensions to the HT leads as they leave the cap - I guessed suppression, can I hurl these in the direction of the nearest landfill? (I will have the most expensive HT leads that my motor factor will donate to preserve my firms continued trade!!)

Ben_Copeland - 20/9/03 at 07:13 PM

Ooooo get some unsuppressed ones.

Or Race ones lol

No one will beable to listen to the radio near you

stephen_gusterson - 20/9/03 at 08:46 PM

dont forget part of sva is interference suppression. Dunno if they see if it affects their radio 2 or what, but it might get tested....

im wondering if an extreme case would affect electronic ignition and injection computers....

atb

steve

Ben_Copeland - 21/9/03 at 06:59 AM

TBH, it should be ok without the metal cap.... but keep the HT lead extension bits and good quality leads.

Dont see the need to remove those extension bits, unless they are in the way

Mark Allanson - 21/9/03 at 08:25 PM

What do the little extension bits do?

Ben_Copeland - 21/9/03 at 08:33 PM

Got a picture of them ??

Heat covers maybe..... stop melting the the lead ends ???

Not sure what they look like ?!

[Edited on 21/9/03 by Ben_Copeland]

Stu16v - 21/9/03 at 10:53 PM

quote:

im wondering if an extreme case would affect electronic ignition and injection computers....


Spot on Steve, although it isnt necessarily 'extreme' cases. Most engines that run with ECU's are sensitive to ignition 'noise'. If it is picked up in a sensor wire, the ECU becomes a tad confused.....

Peteff - 22/9/03 at 10:27 AM

It's on a pinto, one step up from Flintstone technology. I slung them as well as the bean can and put a set of good silicone leads on. It passed SVA with them.

yours, Pete.