I'd like to disagree with that statement a bit. Can't say for certain, but because I don't think they're totally interchangeable, I'm reasoning that a coil is.... not necessarily a coil. The efi coil is backward compatible, but I'm thinking the can coil is not forward compatible.
See if this makes any sense....
Fact: The can coil has a output voltage of 32 kilovolts, but the efi coil has a 38 kilovolt output.
There's gotta be a reason Ford increased the coil's output voltage nearly 20%. I'm guessing the efi's ignition system needed it, for whatever reason. Truly just speculating though. So while multiple people have proven that the higher output efi coil works fine in the lower output coil's application (makes sense), I'm concluding that the can coil wouldn't have enough uumph (in technical terms
) for the efi system to function totally properly. I don't know.... could certainly be wrong.... but just kinda makes sense to me.
I wonder if anyone has ever tried a can coil on an efi car? I could see it maybe working okay at low and mid rpm's, but maybe not being able to entirely do it's job when the sparkalators (see note 1) and the lightning whirler (see note 2) are really getting taxed, say at redline. (Shout-out to Derek at VGG.)
Not trying to start a fight or anything....just kicking around some thoughts. Your thoughts?
Note 1 reference -
https://www.oreillyauto.com/vice-grip-garage-sparkalator
(important
Product Information available there)
Note 2 reference -
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lightning whirler