How to fit stick coils

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Re: How to fit stick coils

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Cheers matey, that's nice and clear! Seems as though CBR1000 units fit too, judging by other posts. I'll look out for 03 stick coils for that too as they may well be the same.
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The cbr1000 are longer .
They still work as good but stick out from the rocker cover
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will ones off a cbr600 rr from 03-06 fir ok?
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TonyW650 wrote:will ones off a cbr600 rr from 03-06 fir ok?
yep
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This is the first time I've seen this mod and personally think it is a bad move. I had these "stick" coils on my Triumph TT600 and they were a major weak point. Over time they can break down and then corrode which means that the coil expands and gets stuck which can be a nightmare to remove.

Any gains that will be reported will be down to the close coupling of the coil and the plug meaning minimal electrical losses. Something you can minimise by having decent HT leads. I can't remember if the HT leads on the Firestorm are bonded to the coils. Like most things they will deteriorate with age and use so by now you will have losses. The gains seen by replacing with the stick coils should be the same as replacing the original parts with new ones.

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I guess there's a couple of reasons for me to make the change. Firstly, all the mods I've made to my Firestorm fighter have created a pretty busy space between the frame and airbox, so removing the old coils and HT leads will free up some of that space. Doesn't sound like much but when most of the wiring is tucked behind the headstock a little bit of space gain will actually help. Secondly, I know stick coils are very widely used on bikes and cars nowadays so I kinda believe that if they work in so many applications they're going to be OK with the Firestorm. To be honest, I would expect that, had the Storm continued in production, Honda would've changed them at some point anyway as they're used on so many other models.
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firestorm_al wrote:This is the first time I've seen this mod and personally think it is a bad move. I had these "stick" coils on my Triumph TT600 and they were a major weak point. Over time they can break down and then corrode which means that the coil expands and gets stuck which can be a nightmare to remove.

Any gains that will be reported will be down to the close coupling of the coil and the plug meaning minimal electrical losses. Something you can minimise by having decent HT leads. I can't remember if the HT leads on the Firestorm are bonded to the coils. Like most things they will deteriorate with age and use so by now you will have losses. The gains seen by replacing with the stick coils should be the same as replacing the original parts with new ones.

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It shoud be noted that in that very same post, a long time ago, I stated that while I consistently measured ~2bhp difference between these and my stock one's I also said I attributed it to the stock being 13 year old, and like more than a little tired, saying I was fairly sure I'd see the exact same thing with new OEM replacements... I just felt that part got left out at the beginning of this thread...

On the stock parts the HT leads are bonded, so you either replace the whole coil, or nothing...
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i am interested in two of these.
pm me if anyone has
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hey there is no pics l :D need more info
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Hope this helps took me ages to find these old pics
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I fancied having a crack at this, being as the subject popped up recently, plus the fact i'm bored waiting to get the bike out again :lol:
CBR600rr coils are very pricey on eBay at the moment. I can't see any for less than £20ea delivered, plus the sub-loom for the connectors.
They are half the price in the USA, so much so it's cheaper to get them from the USA, including the shipping!

Project might have to wait a little longer.
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lloydie wrote: Mon Jan 16, 2023 4:24 am Hope this helps took me ages to find these old pics
Good man Lloydie for finding the photo's :thumbup:

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What have folks used to glue the VTR rubber seal to the CBR coil body? I never bothered but it does wiggle a bit more than I'd like. It would be better to keep water away from the plug too.
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Would something like an Araldite product work?
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I'd use a heat tolerant silicon, that's waterproof and sticks like glue*.

*By that, I don't mean that straight wooden items are fond of glue, although they might be- I simply don't know, and I can't think of any way to test that possibility.

No, I simply meant that silicon can be used as a form of glue.

I think sticks might prefer sh1t-to-a-blanket, if they have a choice, based on apocryphal wisdom, and evidentially supported by the old wives section of Wikipedia**.

** Wikipedia cannot always be trusted empirically, for example, it purports that the Pope sh1ts in the woods, but there may be a mixed metaphor responsible for that.
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