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Old 09-23-2008, 08:44 PM
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swapping out my oem coils to msd i got somewhat of a deal for them and going to put them in my stang should i expect any noticiable gains.? or am i just wasting my money? im throwing in some autolite sparkplugs and im also running full synthetic 5w30
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Old 09-23-2008, 10:34 PM
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Don't expect to see any gains with the coils...
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Old 09-23-2008, 10:40 PM
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i was considering these. i did some research, and found that you will only see real hp gains when running a forced induction setup.
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Originally Posted by slpgt584
swapping out my oem coils to msd i got somewhat of a deal for them and going to put them in my stang should i expect any noticiable gains.? or am i just wasting my money? im throwing in some autolite sparkplugs and im also running full synthetic 5w30
whether or not you see decent gains is pretty much dependant on what year your running, and how aggressive of a setup you have.

If you have a pre 02', you will see a decent difference in reliability and a couple of other areas of performance, especially if yours are starting to fail.

If you have a 02'+, you will see absolutely no difference, unless your running 600+hp.

The 99-01' model year's used a decently unreliable design for the CoP's, and they failed quite often. They fixed the problem in 2002, and usually when they fail on the 99-01', people are forced to upgrade to a full set of the redesigned pieces which sell from ford at $90+ a piece. The local ford dealership has 30 of them sitting on the shelf, which is $2700 of merchandise, which they wouldn't have if they were just sitting there. They knew that they were going to move them
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I put the msd coils on my car, didn't really notice a difference, but I was told of course you also have to use the msd ignition box to see a difference on my '98
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