Recent content by Wreck0nin

My dart gt, has a 360 swapped in, still original trans and axle for now, building an 8 1/4 for it now.

65 on 15x8.5 centerlines and 235/60/15s, fits great with about a half inch clearance to fender and springs

Was the smoke coming from between the board and housing, somewhere between the temp and fuel gauge? Because if so you might have the same problem I did and the board isn't grounded.

BPP3603BK is the part number, its a hei style with an external coil from the look of it. I'm hoping to just delete all the msd wiring and keep everything nice and simple.

It's not that it's not repairable, it's that it's easier to start a build with a clean slate with good parts. Im replacing parts that I relay on because short of a crystal ball I have no way of telling how good these parts were when they were installed, much less how they aged. Sometimes the...

I have explained several times that due to the fact that the age, condition, and brand of distributor is unknown because it came in the car and was not installed by myself is the reason I chose to replace it. Frankly I can't understand why people keep telling me to replace components when that's...

I ordered a blueprint unit based on what others in the forum have said about them.

The reason for the new distributor as I said in the last post is to start with a clean slate, I'd rather start with parts that i know and that are new than mystery parts that someone cobbled together. I'm also trying to simplify the wiring as much as possible to cut down on failure points that...

I'm on the hunt for a good plug and play distributor, I am running what I think is a mopar electric ignition with an msd streetfire box and recently the magnetic pickup gave up the ghost, and rather than replacing it I figured I would upgrade and clean up my engine bay all at the same time. I...

That makes a whole lot of sense, that could be why it was intermittent and took a while to start smoking. I'm going to inspect it before I put it back in, I'm getting ready to put a new headlight switch, bulbs and fuses in anyway

Understood. I did throw a wire ground on the cluster, not the best ground mind you, and did another quick test, with the ground on there was no smoke, no smell, and the gas gauge works, so who knows. I have a feeling I just smoked that wire in the gauge a little bit or like you said burned off...

The battery was disconnected, I reconnected it to do a function test before installing the cluster, but I didn't realize the cluster was chassis grounded. I'm just worried that I'm going to reinstall the cluster and it's going to burn down before I can get it out. I have inspected the board...

Hopefully not, the fuel gage does move still when the key is on and drops with key off so it might be alright, but I am wondering about the temp gauge, I removed the wiring from the bulkhead connector to the sensor due to there being an aftermarket gauge on the car. Could that be causing the smoke?

I just bypassed the ammeter, I stacked wiring running in an out to one terminal. I'm also running a one wire alternator directly to the battery, so there alternator is no longer hooked up to the ammeter. The smoke is really really faint and I can smell it but I can tell where it's coming from...