GM HEI coil sources

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com>

Hey all, 

I have a question about where to obtain reasonably priced HEI 
coils for a possible future TSG coil project. I like Greg? tend 
to want to be a settler and not a pioneer. I've already spent 
a fortune trying to be a pioneer :-( I finally successful- 
ly constructed a 10 kVA pole pig driven ASRSG Tesla system 
a couple of years ago and it's still operating reliably to date. 
That's definitely a longevity record for me. In my earlier days 
of coiling, I didn't have the benifits of this list (heck, I didn't 
even have a PC) so I wasted a whole bunch of money on 
NSTs from opening up my SGs too wide to get bigger sparks 
from a near resonant sized primary cap tank circuit. I also 
"detonated" a lot of non-pulse rated HV caps trying to employ 
them in Tesla service. Anyway, I'm really taking interest in this 
TSG thing for a smaller 4" coil project and I'm kind of waiting 
for Terry and "weazle" McCreath (hope I spelt that right) to per- 
fect and standardize a TSG circuit and then build that circuit for 
the SG of my coil project. 

Now that I've got that off of my chest, I was wondering where 
most of you guys are getting these GM HEI coils at a reasonable 
price. The local Autozone has some "generic" HEI coils, but they 
cost around $50 each and that just seems a bit steep to me! Do 
you have to go to the local auto junk yard and tear one out of a 
wreck to get it at a reasonable price? I was thinking more along 
the lines of around $20 to $25 for a new HEI coil. Is that an un- 
reasonably cheap expectation? 

Thanks for any Help, 
David Rieben 
Memphis, TN.