1980 gs1100x Coil upgrade

[Guest]

I just finished jetting my carbs and it was running great until I experienced a total loss of power going 90mph. I figured out that it is a wire or wires going to the sparkplugs. I would like to upgrade my coils and wires to something that can work now and also work later on if I decide to go with a big block setup, or nitrous. Is there a kit like this available? Should I also look into replacing the ignition system?

Thanks-

[hikermikem]

Assuming the coils, wires & caps are all stock, a common issue is the caps sometimes lose their conductivity due to corrrosion between the cap/wire connection.

The caps simply un-screw off the wires (pull back the rubber sleeve first). Once removed, trim the wire back approx. 1/4" - 3/8" to get to fresh, clean copper & re-install the caps...

Even better, replace the caps with new aftermarket NGK ones...

Basscliffs site has some info regarding NGK types & styles.

mike

[posplayr]

I like the accel coil/wire setup but if you go nitrous you probably want somthing like dyna2000/4000 and that uses 2 ohm coils instead of the more standard 3-4 ohms.