Smoke in the garage, wires melted...just because of new coils ?

[mike_of_bbg]

Good news. What did you do about the coil mounting? Did you add a fuse to the relay line?

[gert du prez]

regarding coil mounting:
cheated on the whole thing because I was not able to drill a hole in the stainless steel plate I had lying around (and that I was going to use for proper alignment).

So I bent the screws to make em fit the existing holes

will do it properly once I get a decent drill set...but the coils are tightly bolted so that allowed for some 'test starting'...

added a 10 AMP fuse inline to all the extra wiring (extra wiring= coil relay mod, horn relay mod, voltage meter)

I always use 10 A fuses, have never thought about something else now that you draw my attention to it...