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Yellow coils

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Sorry for what seems to be a lazy question but before I left town for my job I noticed that my 82 GS1100GL that I have recently purchased has yellow coils. I didn't have time to investigate any further before I left but I am guessing that these are Accel coils. Am I right on this assumption? Or do other manufacturers make yellow coils. If they are man I got a better deal than I thought. The more I dig into the bike the more I find that one of the previous owners has fixed a lot of the original problems associated with these bikes and maintained it very well. I was very pleased to find that my splines in my rear wheel are silver in color and in excellent condition.
 
Yes, the yellow coils are likely Accel.

I also got two bikes with them.

Good score. :clap:
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I have them on my GPz. Excellent coils.
Did you happen to get the yellow wires that came with the kit as well?
 
Awesome no yellow wires but it does have new NGK wires and caps. When I have some free time I plan on going through all the wires hopefully that's all sorted as well. I know my rear spline is silver and not gold and in Excellent condition. Which made me happy As well. Thanks for the quick response guys.
 
You want some yellow wires?

They were the first things to come off when the bike came home. :cool:

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All joking a side Steve thanks for the offer but I will stick with the black NGK.
 
About 10 years ago, I scored an open-box deal at an auto parts store for a set of yellow Accel wires for a V8 engine for $10.

The other four wires, a bunch of leftover connectors and boots, and a couple of spare coil wires are still in a box on my shelf, waiting for the wires on my bike to get damaged or something...

True, they are kinda ugly with the yellow wires and orange boots, but hey, they work great... :D
 
Watch it with the ugly comments buddy.
I'm gonna summon Google, find out where you live, and come put a case of Texas Whoop-Ass on you. :evil::evil::evil:

True, they are not for the timid or meek...:lol::lol:
 
JR, there are too many factors involved to say that one is better than the other.
Spark energy,rise times and voltage output are all factors.
I have had GS and Kawasaki OEM coils, Accel yellow and Dyna Green coils all in my hands at once.
All I can say is that the OEM coils looked and felt like toys compared to both the Dyna and the Accel coils. Clearly heavier and larger, meaning more windings, hence a hotter spark.
I had the greens on the GS and have the yellows on the GPz, and I prefer either to the OEM coils afa producing a hotter spark.
 
Well I got a chance to look at the coils yesterday and they are accel super coils but the mounting holes don't line up with the frame on the bike so previous owner has one end of each coil bolted on and the other end zipped tied down. So I am guessing that they are for a different motorcycle. However they work fine. May change them later on or fabricate a bracket I suppose.
 
I would bolt em down with a new bracket as I doubt that a winding likes to get beaten about.

I have my fuse box and reg\rect ziptied on and I know its it'll do in a pinch solution
 
the accel's was universal.
you get what you get with those.
they only came with the slotted/clamped bracket's.
 
blowerbike said:
the accel's was universal.
you get what you get with those.
they only came with the slotted/clamped bracket's.
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Thanks for the info I will have a closer look then when I get some time and make a bracket for them.
 
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