Firing Order

[Zedrally]

Well I finally succeded in solving the mysterious problem of not being able to start my 260Z.

For those of you who hadn't followed the tread a couple of months ago, it was traced done to a broken wire in the capacitor, the insulating plastic hadn't broken but the wire inside had and was causing a mysterious miss which culminated in a final cestation of engin e noise.

Non the less after changing the points, rotor, plugs and leads, it was the only part that hadn't been changed and was identified as the guitly component.

But a strange thing occurred, [sorry if this is becoming a saga], when I plugged in the ignition leads I followed the firing order as given in Haynes.

Yes you may have guessed, I didn't fire so I left the beast for a few weeks and yesterday decided to have another look.

This time taking the easy way by cross referencing with my 240, I was amazed to find the firing order as 1,4,2,5,3,6

Of course being very secptical about this, I checked and cross checked and eventually copied this to the 260 and wonder of wonders it worked.

Now, I went and checked the firing order as given in the 260 factory manual and of course it's given as 1,5,etc.

What gives, am I going loopy! has anyone else been faced with this, or can offer an explanation as to how it's occured?

:stupid:

[Ophitoxaemia]

i just got a 240 with the plugs out so i just surfed this today.

what i found out was all inline 6's have the same firing order:

153624

15 - too young

36 - too old

24 - just right

you be the judge of what that means, but at least you wont forget now

-james

[ZmeFly]

also remember the firing order on the distributor is counterclockwise

[justaZcarguy]

I got a headache thinking about it Mike. I hope that someone can shed light on this or I will loose sleep for about a month.

And as for you Opitowhatever, how did you come about that name?

Oh shi*, I think that it's becoming a migrane.

ilovemyzilovemyzilovemyzilovemyz.

Ahhhhhhh, I feel better.

~Brian.

[73 240Z Man]

The FSM says 153624.... Don't know what my Z's actual firing order is since I'm at work... But I will check and get back to you...

@ Ophit-alphabet.... I would have to disagree... I am pretty happy with my 36 year old..

[LeonV]

Wow... this thread is almost 10 years old.

The firing order for any inline-6 is 153624.