Thread: Ignition Wiring
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Old 10-03-2006, 07:44 AM   #11
jwscab
 
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OK, so....You won't use most of the harness connections to run your car. The EFI harness has this for wiring:

a gray or black connector that connected to the coil. This has a fat pink wire, and probably a smaller white wire. This is power to the distributor, and tach signal(white).

there is a small wire adapter that went from the coil to the distributor. You won't need it. this had a pink and.....black? wire on it.

the harness has a 4 position connector that has a brown, black, white, and purple wire. You don't need any of those without an ecm.

the 84 distributor should have the coil in the cap. regular old big HEI. Take the wires above (pink, white), and clip off the connectors, and extend them if you need to, and put a spade lug terminal on each. The HEI should have the three wire from the distrubtor base to the cap. the other two terminals connect to the two new spade lugs. Look on the cap, there are molded words. I believe Tach and IGN. So....pink goes to IGN, and white goes to TACH.

done! Stuff the rest of the harness out of the way and whatnot. If you decide to remove the harness, you will have to peel it apart to save the wires you need, the pink, the tach, the water temp, etc. Its probably easier and better to just move stuff out of the way.
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