Newer engines like as the Coyote, LS, and G3 Hemi have an ignition coil for each cylinder. This modern approach is called "coil near plug" or CNP, and it replaces the distributor with eight small ...

A couple of years ago. the folks at Chrysler Corporation introduced a prime example of their "extra care in engineering": a pointless electronic ignition system that ...

Engines need spark plugs to burn their air/fuel mixture, and the spark plugs need a jolt of electricity to do their work. Older cars with conventional distributor-based ignition systems did it by ...

As long as there have been internal combustion engines, there has been a need for an ignition system to ignite the air and fuel mixture in the cylinders. From the earliest days of automotive ignitions ...