Originally Posted by p8mog
If you have the Lucas 14 CUX Hotwire system, then you don’t fit a ballast resistor. The coil that best fits the Plus 8 is this one https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154433137459?epid=1229815149&hash=item23f4eeab33:g:0I4AAOSw9iNfcyEz.


Agreed , but that is the standard 14CUX system , and OP has a Mallory Unalite distributor fitted , which does apparently require a ballast resistor.

This distributor was very well thought of in its day , and definitely not cheap, so I think it would be worthwhile persevering with it. It will however fetch a pretty good price on the second hand market, more than enough to buy the components to take the system back to standard IF that was the chosen route.

I used to use an RPI ignition amplifier, but had nothing but trouble, so I reverted to standard which cured that one.


Andy G
1999 +8 , Indigo Blue.
Ex-John McKecknie/Mike Duncan 1955 +4 racer.