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From: kitten@pertec.UUCP (karen hettinger)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: eliminating distributors
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Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 22:29:51 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  2 22:29:51 1985
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> Many years ago I eliminated the points on my car with an electronic
> ignition and have had trouble free service from that part of the
> system ever since.
> 
> Yesterday my car wouldn't start and it took me an hour to figure
> out that dew had shorted out my distributor.
> 
> It would be quite easy to get rid of the distributor with four
> ignition coils and a little electronics which could not fail
> in the way I experienced yesterday. 
> 
> But with modern electronics and power transistors it would be
> easy to drive a coil with 1,000v. Then the ignition coil would
> only need to step up by a factor of 12.
> 
> Anyway, I hope an automotive engineer (if beer makers are on the
> net, why isn't GM, Ford, or Chrysler?) will read this and think
> about it.
> 
>  Phil Ngai (408) 749-5790

Unfortunately, I don't have my AUTOMOTIVE NEWS handy (it's packed away)
but GM, more specifically Buick, if I recall correctly, will have an
85 (or 86???) model with *no ignition module*.  If I could find the
dang thing, I'd give you the specifics.  Unfortunately, this news has
been out for a while, so I can't recall the details.  Anybody out there
hear about it?
-- 
	kitten~
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