Blue coil?

[Montclaire]

I've noticed that most max wedges have a blue ignition coil - what's the source for these?
Thanks

 

[Montclaire]

Nobody?

 

[daredevil]

Are you talking about the blue streak coils from Standard motor products?

 

[RustyRatRod]

Those were the only blue ones I ever knew of. The Blue Streak was Standard Ignition's HP line of ignition products. As such, they were molded out of much thicker and blue plastic. Ignition coils were hotter and thicker and blue. Just like caps and rotors. The rotors had extra thick bodies and extra thick electrodes. The caps all were very thick and featured "walls" on the inside around each plug wire electrode to help keep arcing to a minimum.

That wasn't all of the Max Wedge ignition system by a long shot, either. Real Max Wedges (not Street Wedges) had a sho nuff optional transistorized (read breakerless) distributor. I think it was made by Prestolite. Folks think the advent of electronig ignition was in the early 70s. Not true. The Max Wedges had that beat by a long shot. A lot of people will argue the fact. But the guy I work for knew of a local older gentleman who owned one of these cars that had the optional ignition system I'm talking about. Maybe one of the guys on here will know what I'm talking about. All you ever see in print was that they all had dual point ignition systems, but that's not entirely true. I've heard and read about it in other places too.

 

[Montclaire]

Maybe it's a coincidence, but just about every max wedge car that I have seen lately has a sort of light petty blue ignition coil. They look like a regular coil and are mounted where you would expect them, I figured it was for a reason, and it looks good so I figured I would copy it. Probably just an off the shelf auto zone replacement. lol

 

[RustyRatRod]

You may be exactly right. I wasn't saying that the Blue Streak coils came on there...just that they were the only blue ignition parts I knew of. They don't make it anymore that I'm aware of, at least not in this country. Too bad, too cause it was good stuff.

 

[Montclaire]

I'm thinking it's either a cheap-o parts store coil, a vintage blue streak, or people are painting theirs as a nod to the old blue streaks.

 

[440roadrunner]

Evidently there WERE some. The "Transignitor"

At the bottom of the page is a screenshot out of a Google Book:

http://books.google.com/books?id=-c...QUFXsU&hl=en#v=onepage&q=transignitor&f=false

"How to Hot Rod Small-block Mopar Engines
By Larry Shepard"

Standard Blue Streak

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