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[omegav6est]

hi all just finished moving my dis pack(took a chance on a s/h one from abreakers) on my 2.5 v6 to the passenger side of the engine bay.it now sits between the engine and the power steering bottle/alarm switch,it wasnt to difficult and everything just about reached all i have to do now is make a bracket up to attach it to the alarm bracket to stop it moving about and it will be done.my question is i have read on another site about making the bracket out of thick alloy to act as a heatsink for the dis pack, anyone got any other ideas about this, obviously space is limited and im worried if i mount the thing to a thick lump of summit it will touch other things and possible melt summat.thanks

[feeutfo]

why move it mate? Access?

[Marks DTM Calib]

Cant see the point.

They rarely fail (100K miles plus) and normaly only following a serious un-attended to water leak.

[Agemo]

I can see the point with a dispack from the scrapper, having re-sited it the thing will last forever, if it was still hidden it would blow in a week, sods law!  

[slb]

hi i just had major probs with my dis pack and after getting it of (bloooody thing ing *^&%) and seeing this post and another some were on here im not 100% convinved that it would work like it has been told for a few reasons
        
      1)  to put it on the power steering bracket is too tight on mine the air con pipe is in the way
      2) the bonnet alarm switch is also too close
      3) the oil filler cap is to close (risk of spilage on to dis pack very messy)
      4)only 4 of the plug leads reach and this is with out the inlet manni on and for them to reach they have to go under throtle bodi inlets not good to tight only other way is across front of engine (not good)
      5) to make all leads fit 4 have to go in reverse order to origi fiting and you also wiil need 2 from another set to make up the 6
      6) the dis pack does not just get its power from the four pin plug as i understand from mine it has 3 wires 2 of which are heavy guage and connects to the dis pack bracket so it can get the power needed to produce the spark at the correct end and to have a bracket like that to carry the charge will need to be bulky
     7) and theres also the poss that the 3 wires could also be an engine earth carrier as well

so to my exp that i have had to day this does not seam poss or verypractical to do for most of above reasons and with mine just over 100000 mls on clock and the dis pack looking like the origi from new pointless :-/