240Z Elect Conversion Help Lost Spark

[rob289]

Did a recent conversion as per this forum on a 72 240Z. Ordered a rebuilt 79ZX Distributor with a E12-80 module wired everything up car ran great tach worked. Ran about 50 miles as i was driving the car the tach started jumping around the car sputtered and died and will not restart? Check all connection everything is tight also check power to the coil it has power on both the positive and negative side of the coil and does not flash with a test light uipon cranking of the engine? Do these E12-80 module have a tendancy to fail? Am i overlooking something? :surprised Any help would be great.

Thanks

[240ZX]

Robert,

Just a thought but, some of the rebuilt auto parts now days are just crap....even though they may advertise a great warranty. I personally went through 3 rebuilt dizzys, that were all f'd, before I decided to bite the bullet and purchase a Mallory Uni-lite.......it's been working flawlessly ever since! If by chance you go the route I took, Summit Racing has the lowest price I could find for the Mallory dizzy.....about 1/2 of what MSA charges.

[jmortensen]

It sounds like the module went bad. All modules fail and IME the E12-80 is a fairly reliable one. I don't know how they get these distributors to rebuild, maybe they come off of cars in the junkyard. So they clean up the distributor put it in a box and it's "rebuilt". Car probably went to the junkyard because of that bad module.

Tom and I disagree on this, but I'd stay as far away from that Mallory as possible.

I'd suggest you find another module and see if that fixes the problem. If you really want to go through the distributor and make sure everything is done right, you can follow the instructions on this page and DIY: http://www.jrdemers.com/280ZX/distributor/distributor.html

Search and you'll find some recent discussions about modules. The Nissan module is $150 or so I think, but you can hook up all sorts of other modules to run the car, probably the cheapest and most available is the GM HEI, there is a writeup on how to wire it at www.zhome.com.

Might try going back to whoever sold you the distributor and see if they'll swap out the module first.

[rob289]

The module was my thoughts as well thank you for the advice