Ignition Coils And Sparkplug Wire Choices:
What came with the bike were ignition coils that even when new were marginal, add years of cooking under the tank in stop and go traffic, and the coils will fail when hot.
Replacement coils can be bought at
www.z1enterprises.com. I believe "Emgo" is the brand. They also carry the popular Dyna 2.2 and 3 ohm coils along with replacement sparkplug wires.
Now, you have a choice on sparkplug wires:
1. Copper plug wires with no supression caps(the best choice, will produce greater spark, but will produce audio noise on Radio's & T.V.'s)
2. Copper plug wires with supression caps(a built in 5000 ohm resistor, that can some times fail, like what came with the bike).
3. Copper plug wires with no supression caps, but using resistor plugs(the "R" in the plug number, like B8RES).
4. Supression plug wires with no supression caps.
NEVER use resistor plugs and supression caps or supression plug wires, as now there will be two (2) sources of resistance in the secondary winding of the ignition coils, greatly reducing the spark energy.
Another choice is the Accel 3 ohm coils, with a similar primary(small wire) electrical connection using ring terminals as the Dyna ignition coils. Whatever brand of coil you go with, make sure the primary wires will clear the mounting hardware, as the spacers will come really close, possibly causing an electrical short, blowing fuses. Some riders have replaced the metal spacers with Nylon or Plastic non conductive ones, reducing the chance of an electrical problem.
7mm sparkplug wires will fit the stock ignition coils(if they have replaceable wires, indicated by screw off caps on the coils with ridges). The sparkplug wire fit into a port with a brass “Stinger” that goes into the sparkplug wire or lead(The Brits, Canadians and other countries call the sparkplug wires “High Tension Leads”).