This car has officially wooped my A$$

[jeff1216]

I was having a cup of cofee this morning thinking what the problem could be.....................Cam across some info on ignition systems.

From what I gathered with me converting my 78 to a holley carb that I could not use my stock dizzy and ignition module....I had to find them from a 79 or 80 with the module on the dizzy......I thought my problem was solved.....went to a junkyard....bought the parts off of an 80.....mounted them up and what I have a a high $$$ peice of $^!# motor.............Still runs like crap!

Just venting

Jeff

[Ed]

Sorry to hear that you haven't gotten the engine running properly. Maybe as a last resort take it somewhere. Make it someone else's headache for a bit.

[2ManyZs]

Just to get one question I have out of the way, it will run, but runs like crap right? What do the plugs look like after you have it running? Fouled? Carbon fouled or perhaps gas fouled?

What I'm thinking is, the carb may be set way too rich for the 6... or it could be set too lean... the Holley would have more than likely been set up for a V-8 at the factory, thereby making it too rich for a 6 cylinder. Does it have a manual or electric choke? Are the float levels set where they should be? How about the accelerator pump? There are bunch of possibilities all right there in the carb that may or may not be causing a lot of the trouble.

That would be where I would look to first. Then, if you have eliminated a possible rich/lean condition with the carb, you will have a better idea where to go to next.

[BillD]

I second the comment from 2manyZs. I bought a new Holley for the 289 V8 in my Healey and it was just about perfectly set up right from the box. I can't see how those setting could possibly be anything but super-rich for a six.

Keep the faith. At some point it will work, and if it works like my 240z four barrel set-up you'll be very happy.

[EScanlon]

Have you checked the Vacuum Advance Mechanism INSIDE the distributor to make sure that it isn't shot to heck? I've seen a couple people report that that was the problem.

Aside from that, I had a pair of Webers on my car when I bought it, and my mechanic told me that in his opinion, neither Webers nor Holley's were worth the pain and hazzle on the L motor. So I switched to the SU's and have been real happy since.

Enrique

[beandip]

I agree with scanlon about the SUs, take a hard look at the enternals of the dissy. . When you look down inside you see the circle thing wuth 6 points surrounding the stater thant's the reluctor. Under that is a magnet and below it is a coil attached to the module. Now the flat metal disk that the coil rests in is called the braker plate. It is made of two disks of metal seperated by ball berrings that are held in place with plastic keepers. If the keepers fail which is common on an old dist. , the vacume advance is screwed and also you have loose parts flying around tearing things up. If you pull the dist out and turn it up side down and tap on the bottom you might find some loose parts , like pieces of plaxtic or ball berrings . If so get back to me and I can help withe the fix and part numbers. Look and see if loose parts are there before you dissamble any thing. :classic: