I will let ya know when I'm finished.$50 new! Are these compatible for Gen 1 bikes?
Here we go with more acronyms for the newbie....COPS? coil packs, like do they connect to the spark plugs?
Usually when I see COPS i'm turning around!!
Here we go with more acronyms for the newbie....COPS? coil packs, like do they connect to the spark plugs?
Usually when I see COPS i'm turning around!!
+1----We must be the same age.For some people, there 'always' have been individual coil packs. We of the many decades recall when engines had 'distributors' or 'magnetos.' Yes, analog ignitions, with arcane things called 'points,' and 'capacitors,' 'distributor caps' and such. It was always fun to charge the capacitor with electricity, and then toss it to the shop hanger-on, "here, catch!" and to listen to their howl as they caught it, and it discharged its electrical charge.
Points on the end of the cam, points on the crankshaft, sometimes buried beneath the flywheel/rotor, great fun to adjust!
You young whippersnappers don't know 'how-good' you've got it...
+1----We must be the same age.
My 1st bike was also the 1971 Honda CB175 twin-blue. V-8 cans on the pipes.I started riding my older brother's small Honda when the largest Honda was a 450 twin, and their idea of a dirtbike was a 305 parallel-twin w/high-pipes and a skid plate, coincidentally my first bike. A 'mid-size' bike was a 160 cc, and Bridgestone had a real screamer in their rotary-valve 2-stroke parallel twin. It was a rompin,' stompin' 175 cc. Easy Rider (the movie, not the magazine) wasn't made yet, bikes didn't have disc brakes, a Sportster was one of the fastest bikes on the street, and H-D dressers struggled to break 30 RWHP. The light, powerful, agile two-strokes from Spain were beginning to take-over offroad events, and while the British east coast woods bikes and west coast desert sleds were still enjoyed by riders, the handwriting was on the wall. The Japanese were paying attention, and were about to release bikes based on the Spanish dirt bikes. The Yamaha DT-1 wasn't out yet, but when it was released, it was almost single-handedly responsible for introducing thousands of new riders to offroad fun. It would take Honda 5 years to finally give-in and to release their Elsinore offroad bikes powered by, (gasp!) single cylinder two-strokes!
That's my era of beginning to ride.
It appears cops put out less volts per plug, u need an ignition booster to get up to stock volts.
Otherwise u would need to lessen the plug gap to make up for less volts. Which is not good for a carburetor type bike !
If they come off of newer and usually improved designed bikes that use coil on plug and carburetion and appear not to have an issue with them (although I will agree gap less depending on the model) Then where lies the problem-not an ignition booster but a resistor. It has been proven by many more on this site than myself-3 1/2 years running. Some members more than 5+ years.It appears cops put out less volts per plug, u need an ignition booster to get up to stock volts.
Otherwise u would need to lessen the plug gap to make up for less volts. Which is not good for a carburetor type bike !
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