Sniper EFI and ignition type
And that was my whole dilemma yesterday when going over all my checks before doing initial, was "if this MSD 5300 is a CDI box, and I've hooked up to coil -ive, I'm about to fry my Sniper". Holley had no idea about this box and it was hard to find anything online, and if I did find anything it was contradicting. I've also read stuff saying that the 5300 is like a 5200 or a 5C which were for use only on inductive style systems. Which got me thinking that coil -ive hookup would be fine.
Did you have major driveability or tunability issues running without timing control?
I believe my best bet at the moment is to swap this box out for a stock unit and put the ballast resistor back in, hook to coil -ive and give it a go. The it's back to bone stock ignition.
Second option would be use the MSD box and hook it up like the image below. I suppose the 'good' thing about trying the below hookup method is that there's no risk of frying something. It's only if you hook it up the other way and its the opposite type ignition that it will do damage.
Does all that make sense, or am I paddling up the wrong river here?
Thanks again everyone
And that was my whole dilemma yesterday when going over all my checks before doing initial, was "if this MSD 5300 is a CDI box, and I've hooked up to coil -ive, I'm about to fry my Sniper". Holley had no idea about this box and it was hard to find anything online, and if I did find anything it was contradicting. I've also read stuff saying that the 5300 is like a 5200 or a 5C which were for use only on inductive style systems. Which got me thinking that coil -ive hookup would be fine.
Did you have major driveability or tunability issues running without timing control?
I believe my best bet at the moment is to swap this box out for a stock unit and put the ballast resistor back in, hook to coil -ive and give it a go. The it's back to bone stock ignition.
Second option would be use the MSD box and hook it up like the image below. I suppose the 'good' thing about trying the below hookup method is that there's no risk of frying something. It's only if you hook it up the other way and its the opposite type ignition that it will do damage.
Does all that make sense, or am I paddling up the wrong river here?
Thanks again everyone
