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Originally Posted by dannobee
I'll ask again, what modern car(s) use CDI? In the last 10-15 years?
I'm not saying that everything used by major manufacturers is the "best," but they do have to meet emissions and reliability standards, along with performance standards, and are consistently judged by their consumers and competition. There must be reasons why they choose the ignition systems that they do.
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Even NASA is going away from CDI systems on their rocket thrusters up to 10,000 pounds thrust. They are now using an inductive ignition system that is significantly cheaper and works much better.
Mission Ignition Systems (Mark Lepore), who make the inductive ignition system I use on my race car and who I quoted in the first post, provide NASA with the inductive ignition system.
In the past, race cars could not use inductive systems because the dwell times did allow for higher RPM functionality. Well, that is no longer a problem. Inductive ignition systems can work up to 20,000 RPMs.