Coils; Curvy/Pointy.
 

Flicking through the August 2010 issue of Performance Bikes I notice that they have a 1999 SV650 track bike of sorts. The writer is doing some mods to the engine and the steering and listing what he'd sourced from eBay, but what got me was:

Now I didn't know that there was a problem with the pre-K3 coils? Is there some sort of performance gain to be had? Have the price of second hand eBay coils just shot up?

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You know how well informed performing idiots normally are ;)

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Nor did I, I'm sure that someone will soon be in here to say that they've had a Curvy coil failure, but I don't think it's more common on Curvies than other bikes. As a further note the only SV I've personally ever needed to fit a new coil to is a Pointy.

No, and possibly 'cos there's always some people who'll believe anything they read*


*Oh the irony!

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Think I've got a coil breaking down so I assume this mean I can fit a pointy coil on my curvy.

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I think hole centers might be different.

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So for complete ease of changing I should stick to a curvy ones then as I'm lazy.;) Thanks Chris.http://forums.sv650.org/images/icons/icon14.gif

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Yes, they are not even close. Pointy coils are smaller.
Never heard of problem with them.

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I have had one go bad on pointy, think it was Owenski on here.

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Are the curvy coils more prone to failure?

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No they are pretty good.