So I have been working on my motor for some time now.
It's a 12a from an 82'.
I have pulled everything vacuum off it. I have a Racingbeat Holley intake, Gilmer drive pullies, and other junk..
I had originally planned a FWD conversion with it. But now it's going in a B-series truck.
Anyway, bullshit aside. I need to figure out how to simplify the wiring to the distributor?
I'm missing some wiring, and I'm lost..
It's the factory magnetic pickup style. I want this setup to be as clean, and simple as possible. Minimalist...
I thought about going to an older style distributor. But have to think this one is a better setup?
Problem being I can't find any of the information I'm looking for??
Someone help me out here please.

 

I could also use advice on wiring the rest of this project correctly

 

Theres only 4 wires to the dizzy, actually 2 sets of sensor wires for leading and trailing magnetic pickups. They directly attach right now to the igniters on the dizzy, if its still an 82 dizzy. Search on DFIS to see how to rewire for a better, stronger ignition or look at the link in my sig for TFIDFIS. Also, you can run without the trailing if you use a DFIS system and have no wires to the dizzy cap and not even use the cap or rotor if you want to close up the dizzy for appearances sake.

 

I've seen a few cars at shows that had no plug wires from the distributor, and scratched my head.. lol
I get the concept now.
Wasn't quite what I had in mind. But it's definitely cool.
What's the advantage to running the modules though?
Wouldn't you be farther ahead to just go direct to the coils??
What about the trailing coil. Would it go back to the dizzy?
Would this make both coils fire at the same time??
I get the concept, both not the functionality..

 

So in my distributor both sides have a red, and green wire.
Then there is a blue wire with a white stripe.
There's a clip with 6 prongs, in a harness from the distributor, the 4 wires, and 2 black which I'm assuming are grounds.
I'm guessing the blue wire is an exciter wire??
If I want to use the dizzy still, how do I wire these to the coils?
I just don't want to do it wrong, and fry something. I'm on a tight budget!
The rebuild kit for this bitch tapped me out.

 

Signal from the dizzy is not strong enough to trigger coils or handle the load. The ignitors are basically large transistors, kind of like a relay. The dizzy magnetic signal triggers the igniters which in turn cause the coils to fire. The HEI modules can handle about 30% more power than the stock igniters and are cheap and easy to source if they go bad. '

Your choice to run trailing, but yeah it has to go through the dizzy unless you want to use a computer to time the trailing firing. The leading both fire twice on each combustion but its so quick it doesn't cause an issue. If the trailing did this it would be preigniting the next chamber too early.

 

This has me very curious as to how you would accomplish this. I'd love to do something like this in order to simplify the wiring in the bay, I'm going for that shaved and tucked look for next season.

 

The link in my sig has details. Go for it!