no spark

[novaluxeplus]

hi put up thread in mechanical last night for some reason lol

just put a 16 carb into my 12 carb and getting no spark at all its not the dizzy tried another that i know works

the only diff on the engine and wiring is the plug on the bottom of the dizzy has three wires and my old dizzy had only two i have connected these wires up the way i think they should be + to + - to - ground to ground

i hope i am wrong in this and that someone has done it before and knows something lol thanks

[AlexW]

you mean coil...... Dizzy is the thing on the end of the cam that acualy sends the spark to each cylinder.

What were the 3 wires? red, black and green?

[novaluxeplus]

no there is a plug on the bottom of the dizzy that has three pins

1. black with a stripe(not sure of colour now)
2. black with a stripe(not sure of the colour)
3. starts of black the goes to bare wire wrapped round the other two

my old dizzy had a blac and red wire that went into it the black is live.
these wires come from the rectangle plug that connects to the coil.

i have cut the black and red wire from origional dizzy and tried connecting them to the new wires on the new dizzy but cant get any spark at all.

[novaluxeplus]

am i able to put my 1.2 cam in the 1.6??
would it fit?
would it lose power??

if i could switch cams over then i could use the origional 1.2 dizzy

1.2 dizzy is a slot type
1.6 dizzy is a pin type

[AlexW]

Get pics of what you already have, why didnt you use the whole 1.6 setup?

[novaluxeplus]

will try get pics up tommorow didnt use full 1.6 setup as the coil had already been removed from the car the engine came from.

i have lives at the coil side of things just no spark which i think may slow down the car a tad lol

[welshman]

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r25/astravanmk2/16sv.jpg

http://rapidshare.com/files/239901145/1136-05C.pdf.html

Link to the ignition side of the haynes manual

Hope this helps

[welshman]

Been doing some research and it seams that the engine requires the hall sensor to create a spark the box that is the rev limiter best thing to try would be an ignition system of a 1300 SR using the dizzy and coil as the black dizzy (Delco) has the ignition module built in.

[jimbob-mcgrew]

you sell it to him instead welshman ?
you know, i wouldnt have minded a fcuk off or something.