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Dropped in a 123ignition bluetooth distributor 2 days ago. Car is running, but pops through the carb randomly at low RPM every few seconds. I just haven't had the time to debug and play with the curve. There are a gazillion threads on 123tune. I think I read them all.... 

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1 hour ago, man_mark_7 said:

Dropped in a 123ignition bluetooth distributor 2 days ago. Car is running, but pops through the carb randomly at low RPM every few seconds. I just haven't had the time to debug and play with the curve. There are a gazillion threads on 123tune. I think I read them all.... 

 

Running lean? incomplete combustion? wires put on in the correct firing order? dizzy placed at TDC correctly?

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10 hours ago, flagoworld said:

 

Running lean? incomplete combustion? wires put on in the correct firing order? dizzy placed at TDC correctly?

Thanks for the ideas flagoworld. She was running great before I pulled the old dizzy so I'm guessing it's not running lean. The odd thing is that it's intermittent (every 2-3 seconds) and only at low RPM. I did also adjust the valves when I had the valve cover off to set TDC so I'm going to revisit valve clearance tomorrow, then re-check TDC.

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My belt was running crooked in the alternator pulley so I replaced the stock mounts that had turned to mush with polyurethane. The pulley had a nice groove that shouldn’t be there so I replaced it with a fancy over sized one. I also painted my fan before realizing it was completely covered by my fancy over size pulley. 

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55 minutes ago, Mike G said:

My belt was running crooked in the alternator pulley so I replaced the stock mounts that had turned to mush with polyurethane. The pulley had a nice groove that shouldn’t be there so I replaced it with a fancy over sized one. I also painted my fan before realizing it was completely covered by my fancy over size pulley. 

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Do you spend a lot of time at high revs?

 

You might find that your alternator doesn’t charge at low engine speeds due to the large pulley. 

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Carbs: They're necessary and barely controlled fuel leaks that sometimes match the air passing through them.

My build blog:http://www.bmw2002faq.com/blog/163-simeons-blog/

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2 minutes ago, Simeon said:

 

Do you spend a lot of time at high revs?

 

You might find that your alternator doesn’t charge at low engine speeds due to the large pulley. 

 

It’s no race car but it is an upgraded alternator, 65 amp I think. If it doesn’t work out it’s easy to change back ?

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On 2/10/2019 at 11:35 AM, flagoworld said:

 

Running lean? incomplete combustion? wires put on in the correct firing order? dizzy placed at TDC correctly?

 

Well, if you swap the #2 and #3 wire, the car will run remarkably well, but spit through the carb every now and then... Problem solved. Now to start tuning with the butt dyno & a stopwatch. First thing I notice is that the idle is now very smooth. I used to get a minor misfire every now and then with the old dizzy.

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46 minutes ago, fastricky said:

Fresh off the press SCR updated build pics... they literally took my breath away

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Your wallet also? :D

 

Worth it :)

 

Cheers,

Ray

Stop reading this! Don't you have anything better to do?? :P
Two running things. Two broken things.

 

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