The Baller Gets ACCELL-erated

Installing ACCELL Super Coils in Billy’s Blacktop Baller

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Story/Photo: T-Bone (Click on photo above to watch the video)

I like working in the garage. After spending a week behind the LCD screen and the fingertips pecking away at a keyboard, it’s nice to get the fingers dirty and twist a couple of wrenches.

Even in this case where I am hunched over the 5.7ltr Hemi and sweating it up on the valve covers trying to reach the coil which happens to be under the firewall behind the brake booster, I still have a grin from ear to ear. The challenge to get at it in an attempt to customize, make more efficient or simple maintenance gives a certain level of accomplishment and self-gratification.

So today we are installing ACCELL’s Super Coils from Prestolite Performance on the Blacktop Baller. Overall this project was fairly simple with the only real challenges were reaching around and getting to the back cylinders. Good thing we had our Tite-Reach extension wrench. Simple enough to remove one coil and replacing it with another and only two bolts per each cylinder. You may have heard this before as we recently replaced the coils on my ’05 Hemi Truck. (Click here for the article) However, in Billy’s ’07 his truck requires the dual spark coils.

Enjoy the video on our Blacktop TV channel on YouTube.

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