stick coils?

R. J.,

Two blocks South of the old shop, take a left on 13th and I'm at the next intersection.
 
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:hello: Willy D has along with about 5 or so other members. Did you go to page one of this post. ZL Mark has all the info on how to do it.
 
:hello:Yep, but no advantage and the coils are then directly 'in the heat' of the engine, no airflow for cooling down and you have to connect own wiring i.e. you must know what to do or probs will come up like I read in my fav. German ZX-homepage (there was drawing, will post when found).
 
Well well....a thread that started my friendship with the one and only.. not only is this mod super ez.. it
1.) Replaces 30 year old ignition system (coils, wires,)
2.) Better throttle response.
3.) Cool factor appearance

Never had any problems with heat...4 years installed.
 
As long as standard works fine for me I see no gain to buy & install, better use that time for the '7th gear option'...
 
Here is the tech thread Mark put up

http://www.zl-oa.com/community/threads/stick-coil-mod.16217/

I am not sure RJ if those ones on ebay will work or not. The stock coils are 2.8 ohm so as long as each stick coil is around 1.4 ohm they should work. In the set of 4 you wire two in series together and the other two in series together which makes two loads of 2.8 ohms that your primary wires see.

I like the clean look of the stick coils and the elimination of plug wires, plug caps (resistors). I have had mine pretty much the same amount of time as Scooby. No problems at all.

Willy
 
 
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love this mod. after ZLMark did this to his bike i did it to Eleanor. no issues
 
So I just measured the resistance on my stock coils secondaries, and the both come out to 21kohms. Factory specs call for 10-16kohms. So mine are pushing about 5kohms too much. I haven't ridden the bike in a number of years and am wondering if these need replacing, or if they may come back into specs after it's run a little while. Thoughts? (note: I have replaced all the old plug wires and every one checks out to about 4.5kohms)

If i do need to replace the coils, would you guys suggest the coil-overs or some Dynatek coils?
 
Well I decided to button her back up and she seems to run just fine, aside from the smoke coming from the oil dripping on to the pipe under the water pump. I'll have to tear that apart tonight.
 
Breeze said:
Well I decided to button her back up and she seems to run just fine, aside from the smoke coming from the oil dripping on to the pipe under the water pump. I'll have to tear that apart tonight.
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I'm sure she seems fine, but if you ride hard you would be doing yourself a favor if you swap them out. You will get less knock as it warms up, better fuel mileage from an efficient combustion, and more fun from the seat of the pants. Plus with stick coils everything is all in one spot with no spark plug wires to worry about resistance breaking down.

If you just ride normal and around town with no long trips just leave it until you lose spark from one of them dying.

Ride on my brother!
 
mudrunner88 said:
I'm sure she seems fine, but if you ride hard you would be doing yourself a favor if you swap them out. You will get less knock as it warms up, better fuel mileage from an efficient combustion, and more fun from the seat of the pants. Plus with stick coils everything is all in one spot with no spark plug wires to worry about resistance breaking down.

If you just ride normal and around town with no long trips just leave it until you lose spark from one of them dying.

Ride on my brother!
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So the Z1000 coils that RJ posted about are still for sale on ebay, as well as the harness. All in it look like it would only be about $90 including shipping. That is quite a bit cheaper than going with Dynatek Coils. I'm thinking of pulling the trigger. What spark plugs do you use with these? The D8EA's or the DR8EA's?
 
Actually, searching for '06-'11 ZX14 coils, it looks like I can pick up a set of coils and the harness for about $45 with shipping. That seems be a pretty sweet deal. Am I missing something?
 
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