Coil - ballast or not?

Coil - ballast or not?

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miniman

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26,319 posts

269 months

Thursday 7th April 2005
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Want to fit a Lucas Sport coil as I've done so much else to the engine I might as well get the ignition right. Running Luminition magentronic. Do I need one for ballasted ignition or not? Car is 1989.

Plotloss

67,280 posts

277 months

Thursday 7th April 2005
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Mines an 89 and has a ballast.

Its on the bulkhead by the radiator on mine...

cone

471 posts

242 months

Thursday 7th April 2005
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Plotloss said:
Mines an 89 and has a ballast.

Its on the bulkhead by the radiator on mine...

think you ll find that thats for your headlamp dim dip.

Plotloss

67,280 posts

277 months

Thursday 7th April 2005
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Ahhh...

Neil8p

175 posts

254 months

Thursday 7th April 2005
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Look for a pink wire and and a yellow/white wire going to the coil. One has a ballast resisitor but I can never remember which.

Wiring diagram will tell you

Edit to add - only one of there wire's will be connected to the coil, depending on what type of system you have

>> Edited by Neil8p on Thursday 7th April 16:54

Cooperman

4,428 posts

257 months

Thursday 7th April 2005
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A bit of advice if I may.
The pink resistor wire can burn out and, with it, take part of the loom down. I had this happen on a Mini 25. The loom from the bulkhead to the front panel then had to be re-wired which was a horrible job. However, I replaced the resistor wire with a standard ignition circuit wire and used a 12V sports coil. No more problems. It's easy to do before it burns out - an absolute b****r after it has.

miniman

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26,319 posts

269 months

Thursday 7th April 2005
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Neil8p said:
Look for a pink wire and and a yellow/white wire going to the coil. One has a ballast resisitor but I can never remember which.

You mean all those wires I pulled off when I took the engine out, 14 months ago???! I'm sure I'll find it somewhere...

HAYNES

370 posts

249 months

Friday 8th April 2005
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my 1990 cooper isnt ballasted but i believe the 998s of that era are.

Cooperman

4,428 posts

257 months

Friday 8th April 2005
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HAYNES said:
my 1990 cooper isnt ballasted but i believe the 998s of that era are.


I think that's quite correct.