Ignition issues
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Ok, so its winter over here in the west, and racing is over for me. Time to fix and upgrade some stuff. I keep having ignitor issues. Distributor gets way too hot to touch. Car starts misfiring, tach freaks out etc. Current setup : S300, oem dist and ignitor, blaster ss coil, MSD digital 6 plus. Currently to band-aid the situation, we've been icing the distributor between rounds (which has cured the issue, but is hella ghetto) What are some options, besides the obvious switching management and going COP??????
Maybe trying a different coil. Possibly the hvc 2 coil? or that Crane coil that alot of people use/like(edit ps92). I have never heard of that issue before.
I have the m&w pro10 with ps92 coil and harness from t1 and I like it a lot. It's been awhile since I hooked it up but I think you don't run an ignitor anymore with it.
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i also use to run the digital 6 with hvc coil and my igniter went out also and just got rid of it and went with pro 10 and the harness from T1. I havnt had any issue with my ignition yet. I love it
I'm also using the M&W Pro10 with the Ps92 Coil.
Does anyone knows a trick to make the oem tach work with this combination? The M&W tach output wont trigger the oem tach.
I've also tried to trigger the oem tach off the ignitor output. But this didnt work eigther...probably because the ignitor will only send a tach signal if there's a coil hooked up to it.
Does anyone knows a trick to make the oem tach work with this combination? The M&W tach output wont trigger the oem tach.
I've also tried to trigger the oem tach off the ignitor output. But this didnt work eigther...probably because the ignitor will only send a tach signal if there's a coil hooked up to it.
I currently have an electrical engineer designing a replacement for the oem icm which will be bullet proof and stable past 12k rpm(not that its needed but we designed it around the idea of needing to be able to turn on and off over 800 times a second). The mosfets being used are able to withstand 5 times the amount of current that the icm can before heating up(the parts are also able to withstand a lot higher temperature). Once the design is done and tested this will be a much cheaper alternative then spending big $ on other setups just to get around the ignitor issues.
I currently have an electrical engineer designing a replacement for the oem icm which will be bullet proof and stable past 12k rpm(not that its needed but we designed it around the idea of needing to be able to turn on and off over 800 times a second). The mosfets being used are able to withstand 5 times the amount of current that the icm can before heating up(the parts are also able to withstand a lot higher temperature). Once the design is done and tested this will be a much cheaper alternative then spending big $ on other setups just to get around the ignitor issues.
I'm currently selling the ignitor bypass boxes, like the one we use in our own car. PM if you're interested. We used to have the same problems. With the bypass box no more issues.
It has been already tested and works.

P.S: It bypasses the ignitor completely so u can remove it from the distributor and throw it in the garbage...lol.
It has been already tested and works.


P.S: It bypasses the ignitor completely so u can remove it from the distributor and throw it in the garbage...lol.
Last edited by CMB-TUNING; Oct 22, 2010 at 10:31 PM.
Bosch makes a ignitor we honda guys can use. Just mount it with the ecu.
Nology sells it. $86
http://www.nology.com/module.html
Nology sells it. $86
http://www.nology.com/module.html



