Guys i need help how do you wire it up inplace of the stock comp. controlled one that has all the wires coming out of it. My car isnt running now and i need help stat!
thanx alot


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A volt meter or maybe just a twelve volt light bulb would come in handy i think. When I did mine (2.8 to 350 swap) I just searched under the hood for a switched 12V power source and ran that to the "bat" terminal on the new distributor. At least i think that is what it is labled. If I remember correctly, there are a lot of switched power sources under the hood, all of which are pink with a black (dark anyways) line down the wire. You might have one of these in that old plug that would be a good first place to try. You can use some wires and a light bulb or a volt meter to test if it is switched or not. Just ground part of your bulb to the block or something, and use a wire to connect the other part of the bulb to the lead that you want to test. Then have somebody turn the key to the "run" position. If the bulb lights up when the key is turned on, and dies when it is turned off, you've got what you need.

 

so just stab in the dist. and put a hot ignition on wire to the bat and im ready to go? so do i just ignore all the other wires that ran to the old dist?
thanx alot for the help

 

Sounds right to me. I don't know what all got hooked up to the computer controlled distributor, but I know it doesn't take much to make the vac adv one work. I think the only wires that I have run to my distributor are the power wire to the "bat" terminal on the side of the distributor and a wire from my aftermarket tach to the tach terminal right next to the other one. Your distributor cap is marked like that, right? If my car wasn't half a mile away or so at school here, I'd run outside and check. I just used a pair of wire strippers and a crimp on female spade connector from radioshack or wherever to do mine.

Let me know how it goes. I'll be up pretty late tonight (as always) and checking the thread. If you're into instant messaging, my AIM name is myke1984. Good luck.

Good call cfabe! I completely forgot the plug sticking off of the distributor base that plugs into the coil if it goes in the cap. I tend to forget that thing everytime I mess with it.

[This message has been edited by MikeS (edited April 18, 2001).]

 

If you're putting in a vac advance HEI coil in cap type, all you need to run to the distributor is the power wire. Use the power wire that went to your old coil. I've seen the proper connector for the power wire to the coil/cap in summit for like 4 bux, call em and ask, or pull one from a junkyard someplace, shouldn't be hard to find. There will be a three wire harness coming from the base of the distributor that will plug in to the cap behind where the power wire plugs in. I believe it is keyed so it will only plug in one way. If you have a tach, connnect its signal wire to the negitive side of the coil, right next to where the power wire plugged in. Leave the ESC connector from the engine comptuer disconnected. Remember if you yank out the distributor from a ECM system, the ECM will stay in limp home mode. On an LG4 compucarb setup this means the carb will be dumping in fuel like mad, you'll get terrible power and mileage and foul your plugs to the point where they wont spark in a couple hundred miles. You need a non-electronic carb to use with your non-electronic distributor.

Hope this clears things up for you.

 

thanx alot for all the help fellas.

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