First Generation Firebird-L Mailing List ......................................................................... Found what's causing it, but not sure why. I had a mechanic look at it with me yesterday and we found that if we removed the starter relay wire (referring to the wire that supplies 12v during starting) solved the issue. It seems that after the starter disengages and voltage on this wire switches off, it somehow steals voltage from the coil. Now that we've got the coil just working off the resistor wire, it doesn't start quite as quickly, but it doesn't die either. Next thing I'm going to do is bypass the resistor wire and run a full 12v to the coil as hugo suggests below.
We also found that alhtough the alternator works, it is not getting the signal to turn on. Temporarily, we wired the starter relay wire to the alternator to give it 12v during start, which turns the alternator on. It's all working now, but we're not at the root cause yet. Brian ........................................................................ . Bingo! Now you've given us another clue!! The Pertronix ignition does not want to run with the balast wire (or a balast resistor), it wants full 12 volts although it will work till the voltage gets too low (as in your case. As soon as you turn on another load in the system the voltage drops just enough to make it cut out). Try to "hotwire" the ignition as I stated before with 12 volts directly from the battery to the + side of the coil and you will see that your problem goes away. The long term fix is to install a (14 ga or so) wire from the "K" connector on the engine side of the firewall directly to the + side of the coil, bypassing the balast wire (you can just crimp it to where it just comes out of the firewall connector to make it easier). Take a look at: http://www.bafb.org/1968firebird.org/68wir/68wir2.html Hugo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions to Firebird-L: <[email protected]> Unsubscribe from Firebird-L: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Help: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/firebird/Firebird-L.html> Classifieds: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/ubb/> Owner Pictures: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/show/> Donations: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/store/cart.mv?999999> FGF Merchandise: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/store>
