Re: Over heating Coil experience...

["Jason Arms" <redbug64@hotmail.com>]

Robert,

Yes your coil can overheat, it is a sign that your coil is going to shit... 
your exaust really has nothing to do with it... REPLACE the coil before it 
completeley dies!  This happened to me on the way back from cincy this year, 
replaced the coil with a spare i had and it fixed the problem.

Jason Arms (Essex, VT)

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'81 Scirocco S (12 pack rocco)
'87 Scirocco 16v
'88 Jetta GLI 16v (New winter car)
'64 Sunroof Beetle (livin' a new life)
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>I am down here in austin and it is freaking hot.  After installing my TT
>race down pipe in like march I had no problems, but now that it gets to 
>like
>100 here in the afternoon my car would die at random.  When i switched out
>the downpipes i just tossed the heat shield and after wasting much money by
>misdiagnosing the miss in my car when hot and then the stalling, i realized
>my coil was really freaking hot.  So tomorrow I will wrap the downpipe
>(supposed to make more power anyway) and possibly build a heat shield for 
>my
>coil.
>
>My question:
>
>Does this sound logical,  would an overheating coil make the car die, can
>the coil even overheat?
>
>Robert

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