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carbed ignition help

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BK_CAULEY

it's built for speed not longevity, woman
Dec 26, 2006
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May 31, 2009
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  • May 31, 2009
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ok guys i havent messed with any carbed ignition setups EVER and i was wondering how it all works out. the car in question is a carbed swapped 90 gt but the wires going to the distributor arent hooked up and there is no harness in the car.

so my question is can i just get a + and - to a coil put a coil wire to the distributor and have fore or is it more to it than that? the distributor has 3 wires coming out of it but they are so nasty and messed up i couldnt tell you what colors they are. i figured they just controled timing advance and wouldnt cause me to not have spark.

Ok i just went out before i posted this and hooked a positive and negative to the col and was getting no spark out of the coil wire do what do i do.

if someone could MS paint me a diagram of how to wire the ignition that would be awesome.
 

asecretfile

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BK_CAULEY said:
ok guys i havent messed with any carbed ignition setups EVER and i was wondering how it all works out. the car in question is a carbed swapped 90 gt but the wires going to the distributor arent hooked up and there is no harness in the car.

so my question is can i just get a + and - to a coil put a coil wire to the distributor and have fore or is it more to it than that? the distributor has 3 wires coming out of it but they are so nasty and messed up i couldnt tell you what colors they are. i figured they just controled timing advance and wouldnt cause me to not have spark.

Ok i just went out before i posted this and hooked a positive and negative to the col and was getting no spark out of the coil wire do what do i do.

if someone could MS paint me a diagram of how to wire the ignition that would be awesome.
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BK_CAULEY

it's built for speed not longevity, woman
Dec 26, 2006
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Thomasville, ga
May 31, 2009
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  • May 31, 2009
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awesome. thanks man.
 

silver1983gt5.0

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if i was you and i just did it with my car went from a computer 88 to a carbd motor buy an masd ignition it saves you soooooooooooooo much aggravation. it is worth the cash trust me
 

asecretfile

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Mine was setup like that but I had a duraspark box go bad so now I have a crossbred ignition

 
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