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Old Mar 16, 2009 | 07:17 PM
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Question direct fire vs wasted spark on leading

what are your guys opinion on this in a boosted motor? any advantage to running seq. leading?
im running e6k with factory trailing and leading coils with CAS, BDC figured out how to setup leading to run without wastespark so not sure if its worth doing the mod or what.
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Old Mar 16, 2009 | 07:38 PM
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The way the rotary engine fires on the leading, waste spark works just fine on the leading. Don't do it on the trailing though.
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Old Mar 16, 2009 | 08:13 PM
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ive read somewhere that sometimes having wastespark under heavy load can cause some damage if shoot at the wrong tme.
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Old Mar 16, 2009 | 09:20 PM
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Originally Posted by xboxthug13b
ive read somewhere that sometimes having wastespark under heavy load can cause some damage if shoot at the wrong tme.
Not on leading, and how is it going to "shoot" at the wrong time?
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Old Mar 17, 2009 | 07:26 AM
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thats a pretty silly statement... When the wastespark is taking place there's no compression in the motor. You can't have an explosion without compression. So no damage can occur...
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Old Mar 17, 2009 | 07:51 AM
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Also the wasted spark draws very little voltage since there's no fuel or compression.
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