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Originally Posted by slowforty
Not to hijack this thread, But I had a bad Ignition Resistor that took me quite a while to diagnose, The car is a 40 Deluxe,(Helmut Dist) that I have owned for 35 years. The car would run and start well but would not run over 60mph (After about 20 minutes of running,so it was operating temp). I replaced the carb. distributor. wires, and coil with no results. Finally I was told to strap out the igniton resistor, Bingo! Issue solved by replacing the resistor.
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Thanks for the thought. I have bypassed my coil resistor several times to see if it makes any difference. The problem is actually worse without the resistor which surprised me. It certainly didn't get any better bypassing the resistor.