Re: MSD Box Installation

["Patrick Bureau" <pbureau@home.com>]

A coil is a acoil is a coil.
the 4 wire coil... its just a bunch of wired put on a plug to connect more
wires unto the + and the - terminals of the coil as that is all a coil has,
a positive and negative poles, and of course.. the power outlet (read
ignition wire size hole in tha middle)
you will have 2 terminals and I am assuming your MS box simply connects to
the positive and negative poles of your coil to enhance the amount of power
give to it. so that it may create a large spark.


(hell just get an EXELL coil does the same thing... just a bigger coil...)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tyler Pease" <uberzip@home.com>
To: "List (E-mail)" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 9:49 AM
Subject: MSD Box Installation


> Today I put my new MSD Spark Plug Wires, Bosch 4+'s, and super coil in my
> car.  Everything went smoothly.  But then I went to install my MSD
Ignition
> Box.  This use to be installed on my pickup truck so I kinda know how to
> install them.  The problem is that my scirocco has 4 wires going into the
> coil as apposed to the 2 that are in my truck.  These wires consist of a
> Red/Black and a Green going into the negative and two Blacks going into
the
> positive. Now, how an MSD Box works is you plug it into your coil and then
> the wires that normally plug into the coil go into the msd box.  Then you
> hook it up to the positive battery terminal and ground it too.  Seeing as
> the MSD Box has only 2 wires for the old coil wires to plug into I didn't
> know how I should plug in the 4 that go into the coil presently.  What I
> decided to do was plug each side (positive and negative) into a two-to-one
> adapter so basically I would turn the 4 wires into 2 wires.  However,
setup
> like this my car would start but then die in about 1 second at idle.  It
> would also take a long time to start.
>
> I looked at my wiring diagrams but Im kinda clueless when it comes to
> looking at wiring diagrams.   I found the wires and where they go (kinda)
> but still couldn't figure out if I need to leave a few connected to the
coil
> instead of to the msd box or what not.  One other possibility is that I
had
> it set up correctly but one of my two-to-one adapters wasn't crimped
> properly.  I say this because I kinda suspect if to be shoddy.
>
>
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