>              I've spent the last hour on the net looking for coils
    > that will
    >         fire
    >              two plugs simultaneously.  Maybe I'm phrasing the search
    >     wrong, but
    >              so far I have found nothing.  I looked at all the
    > coils on
    >     the MSD
    >              site.  There is very little description of the
   individual
    >         coils.  Can
    >              most coils handle rotory rpm?     I would appreciate a
    >     point in the
    >              right direction.   Thanks,  Jerry
    >
    >         Jerry,
    >         Try motorcycle coils. many are dual lead. Also try using
    > "dual lead
    >         secondary ignition coils" in your browser. there are
   plenty of
    >     them.
    >         Several of the 4 cylinder Subarus also use dual lead coils.
    >         Bill Jepson
    >
    >
    >     I think most of those coils are for "wasted spark" systems.
    > Maybe look
    >     for that..
    >
    >
    >     Regards,
    >
    >     Matt-
    >
    > The V6 GM engines use a wasted spark system with 3 dual tower
    > coils.  I
    > ran my 20B on a test stand using a cobbled up ignition system with
    > three
    > Buick V-6 coils.  They're pretty cheap (< $10/ea).  I modified
   the CAS
    > by adding a third pickup, all equally spaced (120* apart).  Then I
    > used
    > 3 early GM ignition trigger modules.  That along with a Holley 4-
    > barrel
    > and we had liftoff.  It worked great.  I bought an EC-2 later on, and
    > that's what I'm using now.
    >
    > Mark S.


   Thanks Mark.   Excellent info.  Does the stock CAS  pick up 180º
   apart.  If so could I use it to fire  a back up coil for the single
   rotor?

     FYI,  I emailed MSD and received the following response.


          "Thank you for your interest in our products. A coil that has two
   high tension outputs that fire simultaneously (Wasted spark coil) from
   the MSD line of coils would be; PN.8204 or PN.8224, you can also use
   the
   leading coil from any (1986-1991) second generation Rx-7."



Matt,
There is an early CAS that looks sorta like a distributor.  I assume
that's the one you're referring to.  It has a two-pointed rotor, but it
turns at half the crank speed, so it would trigger once per rev.  It
could be used to fire a single coil as I described earlier using a
ingition module such as the GM unit I used.  You could also fire a dual
tower coil this way too. If you need it to fire every 180* of eccentric
rotation, you would need to either add another pickup, or add two more
points to the CAS.

Mark



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