hey im looking to put a little more power into my spark, i noticed that since switching to the dakota from my ol '98 chevy that the spark plug setup is changed dramatically. till this point i was used to the cap n rotor design with a single massive coil to replace or upgrade. these new engines have a coil for every plug. been looking and cant find anything definative. is there any performance plugs or plugs from other vehicles that would work with out Daks to get a little more bang???

 

Your better off with a superchips 3865

 

already got the superchips. and magnaflow system, 70MM TB, CAI, throttle body spacer, looking to change out spark plugs n coils. plugs im looking at the autolite 3923s, coils havnt found any yet. wanna do headers n Y pipe to gibson n magnaflow but military pay is kinda slowing purchasing power

 

Engineer's pay can't afford all of the fun you are having (well, with a house and 2 kids and retirement looming in 15 years maybe), so don't feel left out!

LOL

 

Unless you feather your nest really well along the way, retirement just puts you on a fixed income with less purchasing power than you have now

 

hint from an old chrysler guy. if your engine has a dist, cap. plug the vent hole. i use JB-weld. it will keep the water. took me years to figure it out.

 

I'm on the "LotoMAX" retirement planning tool! My wife, however, is a little more pragmatic and is putting away for us for retirement!

We are trying to balance the "enjoy life while you still can" with "might live of 35 years after retirement".

Sure wish I had started working for someone with a defined benefit plan when I was young!

 

ok off the retirememnt and fixed income stuff, back to COILPACKS, anyone know of performance ones or ones that fit ours from other vehicles that have more output?

 

I tried to find the value of the voltage generated by our coil-over-plug coils but have been unsuccessful, but I don't think that you really need anything much higher than what you already have. Many of todays ignition systems give you a close equivalent to what used to be sold as a high-energy-ignition-coil, which might tell you why there aren't many after-market products available. Some time ago, I had a problem developing on my truck where it would occasionally die at low rpm & since I hadn't really checked the plugs since I bought it (I believed the dealer that the plugs had been changed), I decided to pull them & have a look. Well, it turned out that the plugs were burned down to .020 larger than the specified gap size and this still allowed the truck to start quickly and run fairly well for the most part. It takes quite a bit of voltage to bridge that size of gap. You can probably do some research on various racing options, but I don't think that you'll notice any change in performance other than having your plug spark gap burn off a lot quicker - you'd need to experiment with different plugs as well as a different engine control algorithm & you'll need the means of loading it into the PCM.

In the "old days" of points, condenser, etc., I used various after market ignition coils (many of the products were called "electronic ignitions" that didn't do more than save your points and jack up the output voltage), but these days, I find the OEM systems are generally better than anything I could get then as a bolt-on ignition "power booster".

 

I contacted a few companies about them and they all told me the same thing. They have no plans to make anything for our truck. So unless you find something from another vehicle then your stuck with stock.