Okay, so here it is. I dusted the ballast resistor, locked in the GL 1000 coils, swapped the plug caps that came on the GL plug wires with my stock 400F plug wires, and cut down the super long GL plug wires to the same length as was on the bike with the stock 400 coils. It looks the same (pretty much) as it did before (except for the different rating numbers on the coils themselves).
I'm amazed how smoothly and powerfully the engine is running. Time will tell if that situation holds. It feels awfully good though. I guess the worst that can happen is I lose my twenty-five dollar investment in the coils and points. It sure doesn't seem as if that's a liklehood right now, but one never knows i suppose.
Thanks for the excellent discussion everyone. I like to think I appreciate all points of view, and I know I appreciate the informed and well thought out answers consistently given by Lloyd, Mark, Mike, Bob and the others. And not only here, but on other topics too. I didn't know how the plug wires and the plug caps worked until I read other topics. That info enabled me to do this little modification. So thanks for all that too.
Be well All,
Bill
