If under hood components were actually as fragile as some of our discussions suggest, we'd be spending a lot more time on the side of the road with the hood up than we do. At normal highway speed, a coil fires something like 6,000 times a minute, the points operate at the same speed, and so do a bunch of other parts, mechanical and electronic.
Jerry

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