2nd gen coil location placement:
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2nd gen coil location placement:
For those of you that Have a GSL-Se or a FB with A/C and don't want to do alot of modifying to either the wiring to the coil or just bascially don't want to change much.
What I did on my SE is take the fuse holder in the engine bay and just move it from in front of the shock tower to the side of the shock tower. There are already 2 fastener points there that line up with the existing bracket and the take the same bolts. It was not necessary to add any wiring to the fuse holder.
Then instead of cutting wires or doing any fancy splicing for the wiring to the 2nd gen coil. I removed the positive and negative attachement wires from the leading coil. Split open the loom, that allowed more travel of the existing wires. I then taped the loom back up with those 2 wires outside of the loom. Left the existing connector and boot on the positive side and ran it over and thru the middle of the coil. Since I decided to use the resistor from the 2nd gen coil I just made an adapter from the existing negative wire from the leading coil and from the resistor from the 2nd gen coil. Hooked it together and also ran it over the top and the middle of the coil.
I used the 2nd gen ignition wires since they are the correct length and the coil is now close to the location it would be on a 2nd gen car. I also utilized the atachement points where the stock ignition wires would go on top of the fuse holder and routed the 2nd gen wires there.
You could of course do other things to mount the coil and still have room for the A/C.
You could get a much shorter belt and retract the compressor away from the shock tower location. Then mount the 2nd gen coil on the side of the shock tower. You could seperate the coil from the ignitor portion and mount the coil on the side of the shock tower without changing the A/C belt. Then you could use the 1st gen ignition wires.
However I did not want to disturb the existing wiring from the original coil. With mounting the coil on the side of the shock tower the wiring would have to be extended.
What I did on my SE is take the fuse holder in the engine bay and just move it from in front of the shock tower to the side of the shock tower. There are already 2 fastener points there that line up with the existing bracket and the take the same bolts. It was not necessary to add any wiring to the fuse holder.
Then instead of cutting wires or doing any fancy splicing for the wiring to the 2nd gen coil. I removed the positive and negative attachement wires from the leading coil. Split open the loom, that allowed more travel of the existing wires. I then taped the loom back up with those 2 wires outside of the loom. Left the existing connector and boot on the positive side and ran it over and thru the middle of the coil. Since I decided to use the resistor from the 2nd gen coil I just made an adapter from the existing negative wire from the leading coil and from the resistor from the 2nd gen coil. Hooked it together and also ran it over the top and the middle of the coil.
I used the 2nd gen ignition wires since they are the correct length and the coil is now close to the location it would be on a 2nd gen car. I also utilized the atachement points where the stock ignition wires would go on top of the fuse holder and routed the 2nd gen wires there.
You could of course do other things to mount the coil and still have room for the A/C.
You could get a much shorter belt and retract the compressor away from the shock tower location. Then mount the 2nd gen coil on the side of the shock tower. You could seperate the coil from the ignitor portion and mount the coil on the side of the shock tower without changing the A/C belt. Then you could use the 1st gen ignition wires.
However I did not want to disturb the existing wiring from the original coil. With mounting the coil on the side of the shock tower the wiring would have to be extended.
same thing i did except i removed the 2nd gen coil from its mount and turned it around and remounted it. this allowed for less distance for the wires to have to travel.
