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Old Jan 3, 2011 | 11:38 PM
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From: Hubert, NC
Car: 83 Z28
Engine: F-body LT1 swap
Transmission: T-56 swap
Axle/Gears: 10 bolt w/ 28 spl posi, 4.10, disks
Ignition module going bad?

Ok, I am pretty sure it is my ignition module, but here is a little background and what it is doing. This is a 83 CFI camaro with a 350.

-A week ago I caught my engine on fire and mainly burnt everything on the back of the motor. I replaced many wires, pigtails, and both harnesses coming out of the cc distributor, new wires, coil, cap, vaccum lines, vaccum caps, and an oil pressure sensor/switch.

-Now when it runs the engine skips like it is cutting out everyonce in a while (10 sec or so) and is most noticible at idle. When I first got it running it would only do it once in a while, but now it is all the time. When the engine skips, the tach drops to zero then flutters really fast and settles back out. Only lasts like a half second. It does cause it to kill the motor when bringing it out of 1st sometimes so I am assuming I am losing my spark.

-Since the fire was concentrated on drivers side of the distributor, I think the heat might have fried the ignition module as well.

-Just doing a fact check before I put a GM module in it. I got one out of a 305 cc carb car with the cc distributor in it, that should work right?
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