Microtech microtech mtx-8 wiring help please
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microtech mtx-8 wiring help please
let me start by saying I am not a wiring person but can follow simple instructions...
I have built a stage 4 wrx so I am not stupid by all means.
I paid a shop to wire my harness so everything is just plug and play. I got it back and everything for the motor harness was done but now I am left with the CAS and coils to wire up and I have no clue where to even start. I tried to call the shop that wired the rest and all I get is that the owner will talk to the guy that wired it and will e-mail the directions or just to bring the car down and he will finish it. The problem is that the shop is 4 hours away and the car isn't running with out the finished wiring and pulling a trailer there and back is not cheap.
I have built a stage 4 wrx so I am not stupid by all means.
I paid a shop to wire my harness so everything is just plug and play. I got it back and everything for the motor harness was done but now I am left with the CAS and coils to wire up and I have no clue where to even start. I tried to call the shop that wired the rest and all I get is that the owner will talk to the guy that wired it and will e-mail the directions or just to bring the car down and he will finish it. The problem is that the shop is 4 hours away and the car isn't running with out the finished wiring and pulling a trailer there and back is not cheap.
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thanks for the help. should I be running a relay from the pink wire of the microtech to the coils or just run the pink wire straight to the coils?
Also where do I need to run the tachometer wire?
Also where do I need to run the tachometer wire?
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as for the relay and the pink wire,, pink should go to ignition switch output
IE its to tell the ECU the ignition is switched on,, nothing else--its not a bus wire !
coils should be powered up directly already from the ignition relay,, which is also switched from the IG switch
****,, yes,, but doing as you describe runs the risk of the new ignition relay being self looped,, and the ECU may never turn off
( you wont understand it till you see the issue yourself )
-- or worse,, an issue where the pink wire may be used as a bus and handle way too much current
an LTX/MTX diagram is posted ad nauseum on the net-- use it !
the diagram also says to run the red power from the battery live-- use it !
( it does not say hook me to the alt output,, and there is good reasons for this ! )
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