I'm sick of these debates over the ultimate ignition...

[BillGrissom]

Reminds me of this...

His second turbo-encabulator video had parts on the table from my 2002 minivan - A-604 transmission and coil-pack. This one just had a brake rotor-hub, perhaps a late 1970's Mopar.

 

[NITROTRIP]

It has its used, but I can never figure out its maximum rated voltage.

Cut,weld, grind, rewire, polish, buff, if we put our heads together this can be realy trick.

 

[BillGrissom]

Er I think kryton tubes are export-limited since used as a fast-trigger in nuclear bombs. I recall a case where Iranians were arrested in the U.S. ca 1980 for trying to buy some.

Reports that Ford planned to eliminate spark plugs and have sharp fingers in the head gasket serve that function. Advantage was better combustion chamber design and the spark would pass all the way across the combustion chamber. Downside is that would require much higher voltage and your 100K spark plug tune-up now required pulling the heads. Not that Ford hasn't made other recent designs that make maintenance extremely expensive, like a starter motor buried in the back that requires engine removal to change, and such.

 

[moparmat2000]

Or the oil pump on the 1.3L ecoboost having a cogged belt bathed in oil inside the crankcase to make it turn instead of an oil bathed chain.

Er I think kryton tubes are export-limited since used as a fast-trigger in nuclear bombs. I recall a case where Iranians were arrested in the U.S. ca 1980 for trying to buy some.

Reports that Ford planned to eliminate spark plugs and have sharp fingers in the head gasket serve that function. Advantage was better combustion chamber design and the spark would pass all the way across the combustion chamber. Downside is that would require much higher voltage and your 100K spark plug tune-up now required pulling the heads. Not that Ford hasn't made other recent designs that make maintenance extremely expensive, like a starter motor buried in the back that requires engine removal to change, and such.

 

[360notch]

We've recently had pages and pages of arguments over who makes the ultimate ignition, with HEI fans and Mopar ignition fans yelling at each other endlessly and nothing being accomplished. So it's clear there is only one way to end these arguments: I am going to build the real ultimate ignition myself and demonstrate it.

This ignition tosses out the usual ignition coils in favor of a bank of high voltage capacitors that can charge from 60 to 120 kV. Instead of a distributor, each spark plug gets fed power from the capacitor bank through a krytron tube - these are one of the few devices that can switch this much voltage with accurate enough timing control.

The biggest problem is going to be getting parts. It already took a lot of talking to get the old Soviet era electronics package through customs, even though my source was careful to check them with a Geiger counter before sending them over. And Russia's cracking down on exports of that sort of thing. I had lined up a good source in China, but those corruption purges caught him selling missile fuel and filling them up with water. Once I get that solved and get them into production, I'll post up some dyno tests.

I think you are missing the point(s)

 

[Mattax]

I think you are missing the point(s)