Holley Terminator RPM Stall
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89ripper
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I guess in regard with my setup, I wired it up with the tach in the car and the positive also being taken from that same place. Something like a red and green wire and a yellow and red wire? I don’t remember at this moment but the tach in the car moved when it was cranking and there was power at the coil(~10 volts). The white wire from the distributor is also Wired into the tach wire.
89ripper
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Ok...i was getting ready to send you a video on how the coil works on a stock setup, but it wouldnt do you any good. I am not familiar with terminator x, in fact its something a friend of mine is trying to work out. Supposedly the previous owner sent notes
Should I not be able to wire a switch into the plug to have it on by a switch or is there something I’m missing?
89ripper
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This is an install issue .
If there isn’t an msd box involved and you’re using a tfi factory ignition it should be wired as follows
White wire comes from the tfi harness and goes to the negative side of the coil - this wire would also feeds the tach signal
Then the 12v comes from the red wire with a green tracer to the positive side of the coil
It says STALL because it isn’t reading any rpm trace from the distributor
If there isn’t an msd box involved and you’re using a tfi factory ignition it should be wired as follows
White wire comes from the tfi harness and goes to the negative side of the coil - this wire would also feeds the tach signal
Then the 12v comes from the red wire with a green tracer to the positive side of the coil
It says STALL because it isn’t reading any rpm trace from the distributor
I’ve already sorted this problem out and got rpm to read.This is an install issue .
If there isn’t an msd box involved and you’re using a tfi factory ignition it should be wired as follows
White wire comes from the tfi harness and goes to the negative side of the coil - this wire would also feeds the tach signal
Then the 12v comes from the red wire with a green tracer to the positive side of the coil
It says STALL because it isn’t reading any rpm trace from the distributor
I am now having no spark. Reading voltage across the coil reads 12 when I’m not cranking and then drops to around 9 when I am. The only connections I have to the coil as of right now are the white wire that runs to the tfi harness and a wire running straight to the battery to try and simplify it.
So then you have something not wired correctly or a bad coil
Where is the white wire from the tfi harness going ?
You didn’t do anything with the white points wire in the main harness correct ?
The white wire from the tfi harness is going directly to the negative side of the coil.
The white points wire in the main harness is not connected to anything.
Ok and you have 12v to the coil now and it has no spark .
Make sure the harness isn’t mis pinned from Holley.
This was a known good distributor ? Because if all else checks out the pip could be no good in the dist
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