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Hello Robert - 

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
CA>> copper (I did this in my cars). 

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

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

I tried running all copper wires (my cars were souped up) but
it ruined the radio. The coil to distributor wire was suggested
by an older car buff as a solution. 

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

Exactly so and I used those as well. I may have one or two
around here in my tool box. :-) 

I had the assistance of a half-dozen elderly car-buffs I had
worked with in an auto parts store and the father of a friend
who is still the best machinist I have ever met. I could ask
any of them any question I could think of and they could
respond without hesitation. Life was good in those days. :-) 

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