Re: GM HEI coil sources

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi David,

I got mine at AutoZone for $15.  Get the one made by "Wells" for a:

1976 500cid Cadillac engine...

Cheers,

        Terry

At 08:50 AM 9/9/2001 -0400, you wrote: 
>
> 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.