The 1st Magnaspark II Digital distributor

[DerrickfromNC1]

Any updates on the CB Perf crank trigger kit??

[toddgsanford]

update haev the entire kit installed on my notchback. added my vac tubes in the manifolds. the clearancing needed for install on the type three was minimal. the dip switch or connectors need to be facing toward the front of the car vs the instructions to the rear of the car. there is some clearncing on the shroud about the size of a dime. I use a type 4 distributor clamp nut a billet clamp might be a good idea. routing of wires and vacum hoses still up in the air and I am not using the rev limiter. I am very happy so far at a bench run state will take the car on the road tomorrow weather permiting. had a jetting concern prior to the distributor install but have that cleared up (went with 137) the other main challenge is set up initial timing setting is to 30degrees. the type three pulley is not marked well if the pulley had been off the engine I would degree it had to use measuring tape and still think its les than perfect +-1 degree. the connection on the laptop allows you to verify it and reads pretty accurate. we will see what the long term brings but so far it realy looks to be fairly out of the box bolt on upgrade. good work CB I will post photos to my phot bucket once I clean up the vacum routing and tiee down the wires.

[Pat D]

[toddgsanford]

When removing the old distributor to move to 60 btdc this was tricky because no marking on pulley not your fault just an issue with type 3. Drove today and was very very happy with the results was well worth the effort. And you are correct initial timing at 15. Out of the box program is what I am running on will tweek this and sure I will find the overall sweet spot for my application.

[webkongen]

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[bowen71]

Hey guys, I purchased this dizzy over 3 years ago and I am getting ready to install it. Do you guys have the wiring diagram to hook this to an MSD 6A box?
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[Dale M.]

Well....... Not knowing the complexity of the distributor... This is only reference I have at this time....

Example holds pretty true for any two wire distributor electronic module and Mallory or MSD ignition box...

The Magnaspark II installation guide can be found here in PDF format...

http://www.cbperformance.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=2000

Dale
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[bowen71]

I emailed Mark Lawless about it, we will see what he says when he answers. I assume it is hooked up just like how Dale said but at over $300 I am not taking a chance.
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[mark tucker]

so.... is rc still c~ing r's????
on another note.....I got one of the procomp electronics billet vw dist for $60.............. yup the price says it all.they were about $100 then after a few years they lowered thier price.and then I had ..........well I never said I was smart. WTF it's just something else to fix.they wanted to know what all parts I needed to fix it so I told them what I needed and what all I found rong with it(lotsastuff) then they said they didnt have the parts to fix it but would refund some $$$$. good thing I didnt order 3 of them(one for each of my moters) well that wouldent be bad if they refunded $40 or more on each one. I gess this puts my purchasing now two cb dist farther down the road.......

[bowen71]

Well its installed and running, I am having a small issue that I have been trying to clean up.

It has a twitch at an idle and I assume its all the time just cant see it. It seems to cut out for a split second like the power was turned off. Visually you only see the tach drop 100 rpm and you feel it stumble.

Its not as noticeable on a warm engine but when cold it will kill it like you turned the car off.

I emailed and called Mark Lawless about it, he said it may be a lean idle issue so I rebuilt the carbs and I think they are fine. I have emailed him back today with a video of the tach and what its doing so we will see.

Tonight I will change the coil out with a blue coil, I have the Magna-spark II super-coil on it right now and its less than 8 months old. But who knows?

Has anyone else had any issues like this with this dizzy or any other ones like it?
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[Bobalos]

Im installing mine & had a quick question about the wiring.

The instructions say to connect the + from the dissy to the + on the coil & the - on the Dissy to the - on the coil. but.............. It does not say how to wire up the coil.

I would assume that I want a switched/fused hot wire to the + of the coil, but do I also want a ground wire from the coil to the chassis/- Battery? seems like a small thing, but.............. it should be in the instructions.

There is a bitchen wiring diagram for if you have an MSD box, but I dont. struck me funny.

thanks guys, Happy Thanksgiving.

Bob

[bugninva]

Do not ground the negative side of the coil to the chassis. That would be a permanent "kill switch"
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[Bobalos]

that occurred to me after I sat down & thought about it for a minute. duh............ LOL.

I sent an email to Mark on Thanksgiving, expecting him to get back to me on Monday, but to my surprise he replied to me that day. VERY cool, Im not done cleaning it up, but I did get it running, & it sure seems that the throttle response is better. this is something I was struggling with, with the old distributor. I cant wait to take it for a drive.

thanks again to Mark & CB Performance for all their help.

Bob

[Todd66]

bowen71, did you ever get your issue resolved with your distributor? I am having an issue with my Magnaspark digital that might be related. It started having an issue on the freeway aroiund 3300 RPMs on a very slight downhill. It wouild start cutting out and the tach would drop to 0. If I accel or left off gas it wouldl clear up.I tried swapping coils, unplugging my tach at coil-no change. I thought it may have been an issue with my timing map. I messed with it a little, even backed the physical distributor off 5 degrees. Only made it worse. I now can't rev the engine to 3000 without it doing this. If I disconnect the vacuum hose from the distributor it runs fine. I have also been having the starting kickback issue that has been brought up in the black box thread if that means anything. I am going to have to contact CB after the weekend if I can't get any help here. Thanks

[bowen71]

[Todd66]

As a note, I got my issue resolved. After a couple emails with Pat it was concluded it was an issue with the older software in my distributor. It was an easy fix to reset a parameter on the initial timing and problem solved. I had sent them my timing map and they ran it on their test engine. Discovered it ran out of dwell with the advanced initial timing. I am very pleased with the effort Pat and the guys put in to backing up their product.

[bowen71]

After a couple months of troubleshooting an issue, I have came to the conclusion this dizzy will not run on my car. I have sold it, Mark Lawless didn't have any issues in their shop.

I don't think the issue is the dizzy, I think its a dizzy in my car issue.

Its gone.
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[j-dub]

Bowen,
Did you post a few days ago that your issues was solved? I thought I remember reading that. I guess it was not.
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