CA> 90% or more of the static was produced by the wire from the
CA> coil to the distributor cap. If you kept that one as a
CA> 'suppression' carbon type wire the others could be pure copper
CA> (I did this in my cars).

 Once the current is limited, the noise drops off
drastically. If the limiting is at the plugs, or
the plug wires or the coil, you should have the
same results. It's just that doing so at the coil
works for all cylinders at once, rather than
having to do it for each cylinder individually.

 Are you sure that your coil wire was the 90%, or
was that just the first place you tried?

 They also sold (and I may still have one or two
around here somewhere) a resistor that you could
install yourself to go between the distributor
and the coil. You cut the wire in about the
middle and screwed the two cut ends into each end
of the resistor. The resistor looked like a long
black round bakelite tube with a "corkscrew"
looking piece of metal inside each end.

 TTYL.

 Robert

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