Car is at Marks shop, and there has been progress.
Last Friday, my helper steered the car while I pushed it out of the garage and got it down the drive way.
So very dusty!
But also really nice to see it out in the sun again.
Up on the flatbed ready for its big trip to McMark.
Mark started having some of the same issues I was having with the spark signal and getting random misses. So he took out the plug I put in to the crank fire wires.
Seeing as how I doubt I'll be removing the wire harness again, I told him it was okay to delete the plug and make it a permanent join.
But that didn't fix the weak spark signal.
mark said he went so far as to build a test rig that only hooked up to the VR sensor and it still had issues when on the car, but worked fine when off the car. They tested all the EFI stuff, and it made no change. Pulled the battery, no change.
Pulled the starter....
And got a solid strong signal!
So, somehow my hi-torque starter has been interfering with my ignition signal. A stock starter worked just fine.
Mark was so excited he started texting me this afternoon as soon as he had figured it out.
This actually may be the answer to why I was always getting random misses with the Mallory as well. No one could explain it, but I would get constant misfires from the spark feed cutting out randomly. I worked around the problem at the time by putting in a HUGE coil and just pumping more energy into each pulse. There would still be misses, but the spark that went through went through with a lot more power.
I don't know that I EVER would have thought to pull the starter and test it with another starter.
Crazy stuff.
Zach