Hei conversion Intermittent start?

jimmyray said

After all of my careful writing, I still wrote it wrong. Meant to say measure voltage on HEI Positive and the ground.

Sound like your voltage is low. I am also concerned about the signal from your distributor. I would hope you would be getting at least a signal above the 20.0 or so. Are you sure the gap is ok on the reluctor to magnetic pickup? It is supposed to be 0.008". Be sure to check it woth a brass feeler gage!

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It may have been the pickup gap. I checked the gap after reading this and it had a gap that was easily 5x 0.008, if not more. I adjusted it, but then had to take off for work. So tonight at 11:30ish i put it all together and it fired up to my surprise. Shut the engine off and flicked the key again and it fired right up yet again.

I wanted to do some more testing, but i don't like pissing off my neighbors and side pipes are loud. However this seems promising.