jasun
04-26-2015, 08:16 PM
I finally gave in to all of my friends saying get rid of points. I want to preface all of this by saying even with the points, she would start with a half a bump of the key.
I ordered a new distributor and coil from Summit racing and installed it today. When I took the old distributor off the rotor was pointed at 9 o'clock. I installed the new distributor with the same orientation. I also change the plugs and gaps of them to .045 (Autolite brand from Napa, they had 145 stamped on the side). When I took the old ones out, the gap seemed much closer than .045. After I got the distributor in the plugs changed, the thing would not start. It sounded like it wanted to fire but wouldn't.
I used a spark indicator and found I had spark that all of my plugs, at least current going to all of my plugs. One thing I noticed was the per Tronics distributor I bought said it would work with coils greater than .6 ohms. The coil that summit racing told me to buy was only .3.
I took the new plugs out and put the old plugs back in and it fired up but ran rough. I finally got the idol and the timing at about 10° advanced and it ran smooth at 1000 RPMs for about 15 minutes. I figured that once it was under load the RPMs a drop to a manageable Idle.
I was extremely happy because it ran extremely smooth for that 15 minutes. With the points, it never would have idled that consistently for that long.
About two hours later I want to back out and tried to start it and it would not start. I finally got it going, but it would not idle smooth it all. I had my timing gun hooked up to it and I could see the light blinking consistently, but when the Idlewood falter, the light would skip.
I am going to try and replace the plugs as the old ones were pretty foul... What does anyone use for plugs for the 454? I can't say I trust the young kid at Napa to give me my spark plugs.
Other than changing plugs, does anybody have any ideas?
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I ordered a new distributor and coil from Summit racing and installed it today. When I took the old distributor off the rotor was pointed at 9 o'clock. I installed the new distributor with the same orientation. I also change the plugs and gaps of them to .045 (Autolite brand from Napa, they had 145 stamped on the side). When I took the old ones out, the gap seemed much closer than .045. After I got the distributor in the plugs changed, the thing would not start. It sounded like it wanted to fire but wouldn't.
I used a spark indicator and found I had spark that all of my plugs, at least current going to all of my plugs. One thing I noticed was the per Tronics distributor I bought said it would work with coils greater than .6 ohms. The coil that summit racing told me to buy was only .3.
I took the new plugs out and put the old plugs back in and it fired up but ran rough. I finally got the idol and the timing at about 10° advanced and it ran smooth at 1000 RPMs for about 15 minutes. I figured that once it was under load the RPMs a drop to a manageable Idle.
I was extremely happy because it ran extremely smooth for that 15 minutes. With the points, it never would have idled that consistently for that long.
About two hours later I want to back out and tried to start it and it would not start. I finally got it going, but it would not idle smooth it all. I had my timing gun hooked up to it and I could see the light blinking consistently, but when the Idlewood falter, the light would skip.
I am going to try and replace the plugs as the old ones were pretty foul... What does anyone use for plugs for the 454? I can't say I trust the young kid at Napa to give me my spark plugs.
Other than changing plugs, does anybody have any ideas?
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