Here’s some visual stimulation. Don’t mind the wires I’m working on it
The clean up continues. Sorted some of the wiring. I went back to the oem style headlights. Installed the MRT hood lifts or whatever they’re called I had on the factory hood. I’ve heard over the years not to use them on fiber glass hoods but I think the way they mount should prevent warping the hood over time. I suppose I could call cervini. I also picked up another tool box. This will mostly hold specialty tools and my cordless tools. Stuff was starting to pile up.
Is the coil on plug set up more for supercharged / turbo’d motors? I have a pro-m coil on plug set up, the harness isn’t right for my car though, so I need to get the right one. I found a 91-93 COP harness, I have coils, dizzy, etc already with what I bought. The guy selling this 91-93 harness said he took it off his as he was no longer supercharged. Eventually I want a blower but idk when that will be. I can’t decide if I should just buy a regular updated harness from pro-m or buy this guys harness that’s ready to but I’d still need to buy the pro-m supplemental harness if I want all the new added features. I know some guys running pro-m non coil on plug with blowers and they say it works just fine with out the hotter spark.
No not really. You can do it on n/a as well. you will need an aftermarket ECU like Megasquirt
I have the pro-m efi ecu I bought this set up locally bc I got it for a steal, guy was turbo’d then decided he just wanted to go Carb with nitrous instead, came with coils, blow threw tube, Mallory dizzy set up for COP. The harness in that picture though is for an 86 stang, so which is why I’m debating on buying this other guys 91-93 harness from pro-m which is COP ready but I would just run my regular DUI dizzy, toss in the shutter wheel and put on the billet cap, that harness is a great deal, bad thing I still need to pick up a supplemental harness pro- m makes which is 350. Other options are after speaking with Chris from pro-m is, I buy a regular updated 91-93 harness and not run coil on plug, or I buy that same harness and add COP option and he will even add the plug I need to connect to that Mallory billet dizzy seen in the pick since it COP ready and doesn’t use the TFI connector. Idk much about COP or if it’s worth it, I have the stuff to make it work, but I could also go with out it, and just sell off some of this stuff, just keep the ecu and run the normal 91-93 pro-m harness. Woah lots of info ha ha I just need to make up my mind,
The mallory is not a distributor... its only a distributor if it "distributes" spark to the cylinders... what you have is a dual sync cam sensor or CAS 'crank angle sensor'
Not as good as a crank and cam sensor combo but they work just fine and you wont have any issue.
IMO if you have the stuff... why not use it.
Not as good as a crank and cam sensor combo but they work just fine and you wont have any issue.
IMO if you have the stuff... why not use it.
Gotcha, so the harness in the pic won’t work on my car bc it’s missing a bunch of stuff plug&play wise. I want to run that Mallory if I were to go COP but the 91-93 harness comes differently, it’s wired with a TFI plug in, even though it apparently doesn’t use the TFI module. That 86 harness was ordered with a different plug adapter for the Mallory. I asked Chris about it and he said if I ordered a new harness he could wire that setup on to plug in VS having the tfi plug. Extra cost of course!! So the used 91-93 harness I’m looking at has the TFI plug in, I don’t know how hard it would be to say remove the plug adapter off the 86 harness and replace the tfi plug on the other harness. Would that even be doable? The owner from Pro-m makes everything seem like you have to buy it from him. If I could easily just cut the tfi plug and splice this plug to make the Mallory work then that would be golden. Or like I said I could just buy the shutter wheel for my current distributor and put the billet cap on it and call it a day. That guy with the 91-93 harness also has these brackets for the coils which I don’t have but wants to sell me those valve covers which I’d rather run my current ones instead.
So the TFI is bypassed in a cop setup..
The pip and shutter wheel inside a factory distributor IS a cas.... I have used them with the tfi removed and used spade connectors directly to the pip to make a cheap cas.
You can likely wire the plug in yourself... What is so different about the two harnesses?
I literally used a harness off of an LS engine when I rewired mine.... I'm sure you can make that one work.
The pip and shutter wheel inside a factory distributor IS a cas.... I have used them with the tfi removed and used spade connectors directly to the pip to make a cheap cas.
You can likely wire the plug in yourself... What is so different about the two harnesses?
I literally used a harness off of an LS engine when I rewired mine.... I'm sure you can make that one work.
I may get around to firing this thing off this weekend. I still need to change injectors etc in the tune and get with @a91what to see what else i should look at. One question though, with the blower theres no way to prime the oil pump again. I did prime it before i put on the blower and ran it on a drill for a bit. Would it make sense to pull plugs and crank it till there's pressure in the system?
I would not worry about the oil prime again. you have the oil where it needs to be its just like starting a car that has been in storage.
I did man, I contacted lmr, sent them back my can and they tested it, said something wasn’t mixing and they sent me a new batch.
I think you are good to go since you've already primed before.
Usually what I do with modern, stock cars is put my foot to the floor and crank the engine. The injectors won't fire, so it helps build some oil pressure before I fire it up. I do this all the time after an oil change
I forget if aftermarket ECU's do the same thing, but regardless I think you are good to go. Enjoy that first start
Last edited: