I read of an ignition booster system on a thread here so went looking and found a few reviews (mainly on 4 wheel drive sites) which gave the Jacobs kit a thumbs up. The prices seem good and installation easy enough.

So question is has anyone tried installing one in a Merc and esp a 102 engine?

http://www.jacobselectronics.com/products/energypaks/energypaks.htm

Mike.

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i have them on both 16v engines i have , I like it alot , it seem to rev faster them stock, didnt seem to notice any hp gain though

Had a jacobs omni on my 500SEC euro a few years back. Made the engine run very smooth. You could turn the idle down to a few hundred rpm in park and it would run smooth. One problem, it made the spark too hot. I had major problems after a few weeks, the car would start up fine and within 1-2 minutes it would drop the rpms to about 300 and the car sounded like a Geo Metro with a straight pipe! It would run like that for 30 seconds or so and then die. Went back to factory ignition and returned the jacobs kit for full refund.

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Thanks for the feedback, I noticed that they strongly reccomend the plug gap be changed to a certain width regardless of application.

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I could never get over the price of those Jacobs. Years ago I bought a Crane HI-6 with a PS-92 coil for my Chevota. Very powerful spark, you can run any size gap you want. It has a built in adjustable rev limiter too. It fires multiple times at idle and lower rpms to light a poor air/fuel mix. But with fuel injection and a modern ignition I’m not sure how much there is to gain.

I had an Omni magnum in my 190E 2.3 8 valve back when thats what the car was. I don't know if that Omni magnum added any power, but my engine ran so much smoother. I could mainly notice the difference above 4000 RPMs. It was the difference between night and day. I played around with the plug gap and had some good results with a larger plug gap.

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Hey Chevota!

What is a Chevota?

It's a super high tech state of the art custom designed and hand built super truck. Aka the truck I built from old used parts. CHEVy engine, ToyOTA Body.
Also referred to by those who consider it an abomination; a "Toyolet"

Any pics on the web? It sounds interesting. My neighbor used to have an older toy pickup with a 388ci stroked small block chevy set up for 4 wheelin.

Chevota