New emgo coils

[Guest]

Just received my new emgo coils. Connecting the wright coil to the wright point set is no problem but making sure I don't, for instance, connect the no1 HT lead to the no 4 cylinder is not obvious. Not sure if I did this wright but looking at the original 1-4 coil, no4 HT lead was coming from the longest 'molded' connection on the coil. And, on 2-3 coil, no2 HT lead was coming from the longest 'molded connection on the coil.
Is there any other way to double check I tie the wright HT lead to the wright cylinder ?

[Grimly]

The HT leads of each coil are simply the end leads of the secondary winding and so they don't care which plug they fire - coil 1/4 will fire 1&4 or 4&1 - it happens simultaneously, but one spark is wasted. If the paired leads have one slightly longer than the other, that can work to your advantage for extra reach for cyl 4, for example. Same with coil 2/3.

[danyboy]

I see. I must have connected the wrong set of points to the wrong coil then or the points setup. The bike starts but it won't rev up when I turn up the throttle handle.

[Grimly]

If it starts at all, you've got something right, but still something wrong. It's the kind of behaviour that happens if one coil isn't firing (because of a bad connection on the primary side, or wet for example), when the engine will barely rev and won't pull worth a damn, as well as sounding like wheelbarrow full of coconuts. Narrow it down by pulling plug caps and identify the culprit.
You're sure that one coil is doing 1/4 and the other 2/3? Because barely starting and backfiring is also a result of plug leads being on the wrong plugs. If they're all wrong, it won't go at all, but if two are wrong, it will eventually go but very reluctantly.

[8ball]

This guy had a similar issue. Turns out, the EMGO coil resistance isn't right for the system:

http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/showthread.php?234859-GS550-Wont-Rev-past-8-000-rpms