[DeTomaso] Resistor in coil wiring?

Tony DiGiovanna tonydigi at optonline.net
Mon Jun 21 22:01:15 EDT 2010


The choke...just another unnecessary stock part liability I threw as far as
I could into the woods...along with the steering column electrical terminal
block, the front brake anti-surge equalizer thingy, the vacuum advance, the
vacuum brake booster.  I'll give anyone that comes to one of our events with
an intact anti carb-freezing heat riser an instant trophy for worthless crap
that will break.

-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of MikeLDrew at aol.com
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 3:59 PM
To: julian_kift at hotmail.com; gudmundfroiland at yahoo.no; detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Resistor in coil wiring?


In a message dated 6/21/10 12 49 25, julian_kift at hotmail.com writes:


> 
> Yes, the electrical choke's are held open by the current and fail closed! 
> I only found this out at the Reno Fun Rally as Mike Drew's choke wire 
> terminal connection was loose and fell off, so he drove all day Friday out
into 
> the mountains with the choke on!
> 

I'm here to tell you that doing so will make your car run REALLY badly!   
However, if you have a double-pumper carburetor and keep your foot in it,
the 
open secondaries will provide enough air to let the car continue to run.   

Dan Jones was riding with me (and drove on the way back), and we were 
struggling to come up with an explanation for why the thing was running so
badly, 
when it had been running so well earlier.   A few miles from the hotel the 
clue light came on over my head.   The car would barely stagger up the ramp 
to the second-floor parking level.   Plugging the choke wire back in (after 
Dan mangled it a bit) instantly cured the problem.   

Thank goodness for the MSD ignition system.   No way that car would have 
kept running with an ordinary system--the plugs would have fouled almost 
immediately.

Mike
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