I was wondering if anyone ever relocated the coils on a FD. If so where did you put them? I want to move mine but am having a hard time finding a good spot

Thanks,
STEPHEN

 

The two setups i've seen placed the new coils where the stocker are and the other had a bracket coming off the shock tower locating the coils below the inlet elbow.

 

i had made a bracket to relocate mine behing the PS pump, below the intake elbow, but the wires were too close to the steering rack for my tastes, so now i have them mounted where the Cruize controol used to be.

 

My engine is outta the car and I don't have pics of my relocation, but here goes - I welded on brackets for a pair of Crane XL coils to the side of the metal box holding the BMK I got from N-Tech Engineering. Yeah, it's in the stock location, but that will change (got a fresh RP engine and T06S going in). The Jacobs Rotary Pak fried the stock lead coils (that's right, lead coils 'cuz that happened twice and they ain't cheap). The Crane coils (cheaper than stock and way mo' betta') can handle the Jacobs, no sweat. The plug wires are longer and now/were wrapped in loom conduit and they look tidy. Will do battery relocation but the coils will continue to reside in the stock battery location pretty much the way the coil does in the FC..... sorry I don't have a pic this moment; I'll try to post a pic tomorrow.

 

heres a poor pic of my relocation

http://67.83.35.214:8095/photos/mike...mera%20069.jpg

 

i moved mine to just below the strut mount. still use fd plug wires and didnt have to extend the harness are anything.

 

Can you give me just a little bit more description, I didnt notice anywhere that close to the plugs that I could keep the harness stock and keep using the stock plug wires.

Maybe a picture or something?

Thanks guys this is great!!!!! I'm in the middle of swaping my motor and am wanting to relocate my coils.

Hey SPEED NYC, I still have criuse, do you think there would be a way to angle them different or something like that where I'd still be able to mount the cruise over top of them??? Thanks for the pic!!!!

STEPHEN

 

i got you all beat i moved mine to where your msd box is where the battery used to be.

 

I though about doing that. I was thinking of getting a mini battery to put in my stock battery box, they making a alum tray to screw to the battery tray and put my msd on the bottom and the coils on the top so everything would be inside the battery box. The only prob is I'd have to make custom length plug wires, which isnt that big a deal but I was a little worried with them having to run right by the powersteering/AC belt. I'd hate for one of my plug wires to get into that belt.

I'd really like to keep it where I can run the stock sized plug wires so I dont have to waste the $85 wires I bought a couple months ago lol. I also dont really like the idea of hacking up my harness, thats why I like sokudo's idea if I can get some more info.

STEPHEN

STEPHEN

 

.... Crane LX's - twin single lead coils. Stock lead coil suckee - suckee. My coils numba' one.

 

Motor coming out tomorrow morning.

 

t2 wires work or i bougt a v8 kit from taylor 50$ and i have 2 sets. the onlky prob was i had to use the boots from my stock wires. when i change them i will buy t2 wires. the harness hack was not a big deal at all. i made mine about 1.5 feet longer. and used high quality wire.

 

SPEED NYC, What's up with that ghetto *** turbo discharge pipe? Is that rubber piece from a Saab? Yeah, I used that **** too before I did my hard pipe.

 

Nice pipe from the turbo to I/C

 

here is the link to some pics
http://www.jouleusa.com/fd.htm

 

the rubber hose on the ic piping is actually a stock TII intake hose. i didn't have time to get that peice of pipe fabricated in aluminum yet, so i started breaking in the motor with that on there instead. if you look closely, you'll see that there is a 1.5 inch diameter hole in that hose to bleed off boost, since i have no bov yet.

its ghetto, but it will be done correctly in about 2 weeks.

NO SAAB PARTS IN MY RIDE!!!!!!

 

Well, I noticed your car is J Spec with your steering rach and master cyl on the other side I think it gives you more room.

I could prob make that work though but then I would have to jack up my car and chg the plugs from the underside......Its a pita to jack up my car cause I can find a good jack low enough.

I might try that spot though......I'm suprised the stock wires will reach that far!!!!!! Did you have to change the way the harness snakes thru everything or is there just enough slack in the wires to reach all the way???

Thanks,
STEPHEN

 

Anyone else want to comment???

STEPHEN