I'm looking to use a donor wiring harness to create a plug'n'play harness for a 2nd gen coil install. In looking in the Haynes, on page 289, I see that there is a condensor wired parallel to the ignitors & coils. What is it's purpose? Can it be left out? Etc. etc.

I want to leave my stock wiring intact, just in case I should ever want to revert. I just want to make sure that once I get this thing all wired in, I don't blow something right off the bat. Any hints, tips, guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Brian

 

Does anyone have any clue about this?

 

you want it there , it cleans up the hash youd see on the scope , it stabilizes ignitionspikes, and cleans up tach signal , not to mention noise in your radio, my dankus hei system uses factory power and coil plugs on each module ,this includes the condensors gm installed from the factory, so ive got two!, let me see if i got pic, i got one of the box with the module showing thru window but you cant see the harness connect , but the condenser is itegrated nicely into it, cannabilize a couple of hei distys.

 

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Is the condenser on a factory ignitor built in? I don't see anything attached to the wiring harness. Only things are the connectors that attach to the coil and ignitor, and on the trailing, the connector for the tach.

Brian

 

my factory system the condenser was screwed to the outside of the distrbuter next to the trailing igniter, black wire whit stripe, bullet connecter comes out of the harness with the trailing ign plug, daqmn i wish i had a pic, but i eliminated it all, also i fought a errattic and jumpy tach innaccurate as hell, so when i modified my disty i wrapped the factor igniter to coil harness up and tied it back, i then ran wire from my LEADING coil neg an run it directly to the tach terminal on the back of cluster, i left the original tach wire intact at the cluster so the buzzer would still work, the tach is now rock steady, fast responding, and accurate to 100 rpm to the dyno tach reading, the buzzer goes of at6900 every time, i dont look at tach no more ,i just listen for the buzzer. when people ride, they go ''whats that'' I tell 'em ''IT MEANS SHIFT DUMBASS!""

 

im pulling all of it tomorrow to detail and hard wire, ill take good pics for you while its off, its easy and simple, those msd blaster 2 coils and hei's will pop your nuts like popcorn if it bites you, ask me how i found this out! and heres the best part , 2 new modules lifetime warr from autozone 16.00x2 two blaster coils 36.00x2. rite at 100 bucks , cant hardly by one masda ign for that.

 

The bullet connector that you said goes to the condensor must be what I thought was the tach lead. Shows what I know. Thanks for the info. I think I can get it from here. I shouldn't need to mess with the trailing side anyway, just wanted to know for sure what all the wires did.

Brian