High Output Coil Confusion

[ghia nut]

Hey guys, I have the high output coil from dodge and Chrysler cars.
Its not the stock ej22 coil.
Its cylinder designation is
1 4
|--|
2 3

Looking on the internets
They have it designated as
3 4
|--|
1 2
shown by this


Im a little confused as to how it should be oriented
also consider Im reversing the manifold as well.

[kimokalihi]

Stock coil is the same layout as the cylinders. Left is left, right is right, front to front and back to back. That picture is correct.

[Legacy777]

It really doesn't matter how the actual numbers are laid out as long as the shared coils are opposing cylinders. For example, using Subaru's cylinder designation cylinders 1 & 2 would have a shared coil, and cylinders 3 & 4 would have a shared coil. You would not want to have cylinders 1 & 3 or 2 & 4 with a shared coil.

[ghia nut]

so the orientation due to the reversing of the manifold would not affect this as long at the coils are inline with the engine
i.e. = and ||

[vrg3]

If you reverse the manifold you'll need to keep the coil pack in the stock orientation -- don't reverse the coil pack along with the manifold.

[ghia nut]

gotcha thanks for the help guys

[fngearhead]

I have the Dodge coil on my car. Mount it in the factory orientation and then connect your wires backwards. Front cylinder to back coil port and back cylinder to front port. Took me about 5 minutes of "Oh my God! What have I done!?!" to figure that out.

[vrg3]

Oh! In that case, rotating the coil with the manifold would work too.

I would rather switch around the low-voltage wires going into the coil than have the spark plug wires criscross.

[fngearhead]

The wires would only cross front to back, not side to side. I don't think my engine ran right with the coil rotated.

[vrg3]

Switching side-to-side wouldn't change anything anyway -- the front cylinders both fire at the same time and the back cylinders fire at the same time.