willjs7

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I started the install of my FC1000 by mounting the ignition box under my RE-Amemiya headlights, i ran the power wire to the positive terminal and the negative wire to the grounding terminal on the battery. I mounted a Turbo 2 coil on the stock location with a little bit of modification to get it to fit right. i cut the clip off the stock harness for the leading coil and connected the red wire to the black and red wire on the harness, and the green one to the other wire. I used the spade clips and hooked up the positive and negative terminals on the coil. after all mounted up, in the on position the red and green wires both had 12+volts. But no spark. I put a new set of plug wires on thinking that might help. no luck, i tested the ground on the coil bracket and it wasnt grounded, i made an external ground strap and grounded it to the fire wall. Still no spark. fuses are all fine, Trailing coils are fiering. tested the T2 coil, checked out OK. any sugestions, im quite stumped at the moment.

dubulup

just for REF the coil needs a GND from the ignitor to fire...



if you used a solid green wire...you have the ECU trying to fire the coil, which is wrong...

The Y/L (yellow/blue) wire to the signal

willjs7

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the solid green wire i was speaking of was tha jacobs wire on the CDI.

tom94RX-7

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I just installed one of these recently and had no problems. I suggest you make sure you wired it up correctly, but I'm sure you already know that. I then wired up the FC coil like a week later and didn't have any problems with that install either. Let me know if you have any specific wire questions and I can see if I can help, I don't know what else to suggest now without checking the wiring in my car.

YayeR

This was how we wired it up.

dubulup

good chop bro!!

wiring looks good.

willjs7

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im almost positive its wired properly, is there any grounds i might have missed?

willjs7

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i double checked everything again today, played around with the grounds, everything is grounded and seems as it would work fine... one question... the green and red wires on the FC1000 harness, where exactly did you guys connect/splice them to?

willjs7

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the both have power in the ON key position.... im starting to get frustrated

willjs7

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could the + and - input on the coil be backwards, or would this not have an effect?

tom94RX-7

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black and white wires connect to the FC coil. green and red connect to the wire harness that used to connect to the coil before installing the FC1000. I can't see which colored wires the red and green FC1000 wires connect to in the factory wire harness.

tom94RX-7

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the black and white FC1000 wires have + and - marks on them, and so does the FC coil, so match up the + wire from the FC1000 to the + side of the coil. I'm pretty sure it needs to be correct, not backwards.

willjs7

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****, i have everything wired up properly, it wont fire

tom94RX-7

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disconnect the new wire connections and wire the coil back up without the FC1000, so wire it back up like it was before and see if the car runs like that, if so then I guess your FC1000 is bad.

willjs7

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good plan.

also, whats the best way to check and se if there is spark?

tom94RX-7

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I know how to check on my dirtbike with the spark plug removed and placed up against the side of the cylinder, but not sure about a car.

willjs7

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Yayer is gonna come by again today so we can sort out this mess . hopefully its something small

willjs7

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heres an update, Yayer came down the past 2 days, and heres a timeline of what happend... we checked the signal wire from the ignitor and the key switch and both seeemed fine, we assumed the coil was bad, for good measure we took it out, hooked a spark tester up to it and jumped it using the battery in small incraments. it made spark so the coil is fine, we wired everything back up using the stock harness and bypassing the jacobs unit, still no luck...

today we examened the key and the part spliced into the stock harness looked pretty haggard so we ripped that wire out and ran one directly from the ignitor itself. we still had the coil out of the car, so we grounded it, hooked up the spark tester, and bam, nice clean, healthy loud sparks comming from the coil powered by the car. now all thats left to do is hook up the jacobs unit and it will be done(knock on wood)

thanks for all that have given insight.