Cautiously Optimistic Options

[lsintampa]

75 914/4 2.0 FI

Been working on this project for four months now. Car came with motor out and 20 some years of resting in a barn - or so this is my belief.

After an ignition fire (from a shorted AAR), and an assortment of new parts, 5-lug conversion, new shocks, bushings all around, rotors, rebuilt calipers, and so on, etc. I'm finally coming down to the wire.

I don't have a fuel pump, but one is arriving next week.

My goal for today was to see if I had "spark". SO, we topped up the oil and tranny fluids, rigged up enough power to see if we had flame.

Pulled #3 plug and set it to ground and turned the thing over... very happy to see the plug fire!!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cheer.gif)

I'm old school, carb and radiator cars only - so this is my first dance with FI and air cooled - so excuse the questions but:

1) Assume this means my coil is OK - was worried from the short a while back, but with spark, I guess we're good.
2) What can be determined for the FI parts? IE, is the ECU needed to produce spark or does it just read the pulses and supply fuel?

I did see that the power to the fuel pump jumped for a brief moment when ignition was turned to start... I was told that the ECU controls that.

I guess I'm anxious to see this thing run and I still worry about the ECU and who knows.

I'm done for a while now - until I get a fuel pump, then back into it.

Anyway, for me, seeing that spark was really encouraging. First time in four months I felt that good about this car.

Hope soon I'll be (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif)

Len