Most likely cause from a miss with an aftermarket electronic ignition is
the rotor is not in the right place when the spark fires. Wants to cross
fire to another cylinder. As the spark advances with high vacuum or
higher speed, it tends to miss more regular. When you put the old points
set up back it went away as everthing was lined up right inside the
distributor. Ala factory setup.
Paul
Paul Asgeirsson
Morriservice
9123 N Clarendon Ave
Portland OR 97213-3998
503-978-1103
PAsgeirsson@juno.com
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998 22:31:13 -0400 Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
writes:
>I have another problem in one of my LBCs! So what else is new?
>This time it is a miss, sputtering, not a dead miss, in the A40 (1275
>Sprite engine)
>I have ruled out carburation and it is definatly distributor related.
>Petronix Ignitor with less then 1500 miles on it.
>Replaced plugs, still misses.
>Replaced cap and wires, still misses.
>Replaced whole dizzy but swapped out petronix into different dizzy
>and it still misses.
>Now I'm going nuts!!! I decide to put in a points dizzy (no more
>electronics) and the problem went away.
>So I put points and condenser on the original dizzy where the petronix
>was, original cap, rotor and wires. No more miss!
>So the electronic ignition is causing the miss.
>How is this possible? I thought it worked or it didn't.
>The car now runs better then ever, I had to lean out the carb quite a
>bit now that it has points. And I may just hit warp speed in the old
>saloon now!
>>From day one this car had the ignitor ignition and a ceramic ballast
>resistor coil (NOS Lucas)
>
>Anybody have any ideas?
>--
>Frank Clarici
>Toms River, NJ
>Lots of LBCs
>http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut
>
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