another smaller update that i am gonna over complicate the crap outta for joy.
Its the replacement of the factory coil with an MSD upgrade.
Decided to use the factory bracket for convenience of mounting the coil and mount for the future throttle cable. reason for replacement of the coil is cause A. i wanted to, and B. the point is corroded to crap. also for cool guy points sense the factory produces 35,000V and the new plug wires i am using are 11.5mm i was afraid the coil wouldn't give it enough V's to compliment them. new msd is said to make 45,000.
Firt thing first, remove the old coil. for this i used a makita angle grinder, hammer, and a punch that necked down to 1/8"
Snipped the head off the one side, secured in a vice, popped the rivet right out, turns out they are aluminum.
Next was cleaning up the old brackets off. the paint and rust didn't match the engines new flashy theme. used a 1/2 hp, 8" bench grinder with a wire wheel and stone wheel. cleaned off the brackets then used the stone wheel side to smooth the corners off cause once again, cool guy points. after that i painted the using DUPICOLOR high heat engine spray paint line, used grey primer for the base then coated with the "aluminum" flavor to finish it.
I made use of the supplied hardware from MSD. the brackets that came with where bent into two 90*s which i straightened out into a 45* for a little added length to hook up the plug in wires. the tiny bolt that came with used a 9/32nd socket.
After drying and torqued to a "ugh" we have the finished product. yes i doubled nutted just for fun.