After seeing ISC racing's kit to use the chrysler app MSD coils for the 1.6, I decided that i'd finally have a use for that coil i had in a box of neon stuff leftover from my neon days. From what I understand, the miata coil is 26kv and the neon coil is something like 32-36kv, so there's an upgrade to be had here.
I'm afraid i didn't photograph every single step, so i'll do my best to explain.
Here's where i started, with a normal 1.6 valve cover:
First, I simply sat the coil on the valve cover and bravely closed the hood. Hood clearance was not a problem, and the final position of the coil is a bit closer to that hood brace.
I measured the bolt-holes and made a a mockup of a bracket for the coil out of cardboard:
Here's the drawing i made from that:
A friend of mine has a bunch of machine shop stuff in his garage, so he made this nifty aluminum mounting plate from the drawing out of scrap aluminum sheet:
He also trimmed down some tubing so that the plate would sit nicely above the valve cover:
We had to make the tubing standoffs a bit shorter before the final fitment with the ingition wires. Caldera hooked me up with his original equipment mopar wires for some extra WTF factor. :)
Once i spliced the wiring together, it started up and ran just fine! I just matched up the wires from the miata coil, 2-3 went to the right terminal on the neon plug, and 1-4 went to the left terminal on the neon plug, common ground goes to the center terminal on the neon plug.
I haven't driven the car tonight, as it has been raining; but i don't imagine the results will be too dramatic since my motor is essentially stock. However, it was a fun project to take on. Thanks for looking!
