FWIW, I report the following just for general interest and a heads-up, not as a warning not to use RX-8 Renesis coils (at least not yet).

 

From the car racing corwd, I have been getting a lot of reports and requests for information about using LS-1 coils on RX-8 cars.  They have been having some failures of Renesis coils and are asking if the LS-1 coils will work on the stock ECU.  There is also a rumor of Mazda coming out with updated RX-8 coils, possibly as a result of these failures.

 

The only report I have of problems with Renesis coils on aircraft was from Ian Beedle who had some fail on his plane.  It was thought that this was due to his EC2 being programmed for LS-1 coils but this may not be the case in light of these reports.

 

I am using 6 Renesis coils on my 20B with about 15 hours of ground testing, no problems so far.

 

Tracy