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It connects to the condenser which stores a charge in order to deliver the spark as I recall, but it's been a very long time.
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The condenser provides an "easier" path for the electricity to flow in as the points pull apart. Prevents a spark arcing across the contacts and eroding them. |
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Phew....I was worried I was going to completely get it wrong. Funny how you question yourself on things you know but haven't had to think about for a while.
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I kind of miss the days when an afternoon changing plugs and cleaning/setting points would add noticeable power and driveability (or swapping in $500 worth of headers/carb/manifold would almost double output). Then I realize that I'm now driving a car with tech that only the race teams had back then, with >125hp/liter, so it's a pretty cool trade off to let the computer fire the coils.
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One of these in your glovebox would keep you off the side of the road. Only thing Blue-Point made that was any good. Their points certainly weren't.
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Touché my fine sir!!!
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04-29-2020, 06:33 AM | #26212 |
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Those were state of the art when they replaced these!
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Edit- never mind. Murf993 already answered.
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Okay...
I remember the cassette tapes (I was born in 1990), and I know what ignition points are from working on a lot of older engines. But what the heck are those?
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Looks like an Elton john video game, you get to go around and beat your gay lovers and make them get surgery to look like you.
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Faulk I'm old. 8 Track tape. I had an 8 track in one of my early cars.....they were actually pretty good but because of the format the tape would stop mid song and rewind to then complete the song.
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Get off my lawn! 8 track tapes! Damn I feel old. I guess you don't remember when you actually had to go to the bank and deal with tellers before money came out of machines...
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I have a bank book somewhere that the teller would actually hand write the amounts and balances in it.
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My wife and I still have quite the collection of cassettes and were playing some of them this weekend. Yes, we do have 2 CD/Cassette boom boxes.
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Do you remember how busy the banks were the beginning of the month when the old people would come in to get their interest posted in their bank books?
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