Hey Folks,
I did manage to get the engine of the KG running this Sunday. It took most of the day, but we were taking it easy - having a BBQ at the same time and dodging some rain showers. This was supposed to be a celebratory event.
In the evening, I scooted the car around the driveway a little bit and I must say… the engine is VERY nice and well-rounded!
Anyway - I tried firing up the flat-four with the MSD 6AL-2 programmable and: nyet!
I check everything and went through the trouble shooting procedure and found nothing until the final test: tapping together the MSD ignition wires (simulating the closing magnetic circuit.) When you do that, the MSD box's LED is supposed to blink… which it did. However it NEVER blinked with the distributor's magnetic pickup. (even when I switched polarity)
I hooked up a DMM to the distributor and, according to MSD, I was supposed to find: .500 I'm reading 1. with no variance as I spin the distributor. Note, I am not sure I am reading this correctly. (Does the turnover speed influence the quality of the signal?)
Here's the odd bit, when I tossed out the MSD, it fired up immediately. Stranger still: the engine builder test ran the engine with his MSD6 box!
I did manage to get the engine of the KG running this Sunday. It took most of the day, but we were taking it easy - having a BBQ at the same time and dodging some rain showers. This was supposed to be a celebratory event.
In the evening, I scooted the car around the driveway a little bit and I must say… the engine is VERY nice and well-rounded!
Anyway - I tried firing up the flat-four with the MSD 6AL-2 programmable and: nyet!
I check everything and went through the trouble shooting procedure and found nothing until the final test: tapping together the MSD ignition wires (simulating the closing magnetic circuit.) When you do that, the MSD box's LED is supposed to blink… which it did. However it NEVER blinked with the distributor's magnetic pickup. (even when I switched polarity)
I hooked up a DMM to the distributor and, according to MSD, I was supposed to find: .500 I'm reading 1. with no variance as I spin the distributor. Note, I am not sure I am reading this correctly. (Does the turnover speed influence the quality of the signal?)
Here's the odd bit, when I tossed out the MSD, it fired up immediately. Stranger still: the engine builder test ran the engine with his MSD6 box!