What sort of crazy ignition gimmick is this?
Someone mentioned that this CDI ignition would use a points distributor to trigger it. I checked today, and the car has the stock electronic ignition distributor, no points.
Looking at it some more, how is this thing supposed to work? It receives +/- 12 volts from the power wires bolted to the coil, it takes and supercharges that power somehow, and feeds it right back to the very same connections it got the 12 volt power from in the first place?
Each coil terminal has a little metal plate bolted to it, so more wires can be attached. Now if that plate were somehow installed to separate the power, then I could see it working, but if it is just a little metal tab, then I don't know if this thing is even wired right.
I checked the factory ECU today, since there was a lot of gunk below it all over the inner fender. I think I have to change the ECU. The story I got is the car sat for around 20 years in storage, maybe more.
Someone mentioned that this CDI ignition would use a points distributor to trigger it. I checked today, and the car has the stock electronic ignition distributor, no points.
Looking at it some more, how is this thing supposed to work? It receives +/- 12 volts from the power wires bolted to the coil, it takes and supercharges that power somehow, and feeds it right back to the very same connections it got the 12 volt power from in the first place?
Each coil terminal has a little metal plate bolted to it, so more wires can be attached. Now if that plate were somehow installed to separate the power, then I could see it working, but if it is just a little metal tab, then I don't know if this thing is even wired right.
I checked the factory ECU today, since there was a lot of gunk below it all over the inner fender. I think I have to change the ECU. The story I got is the car sat for around 20 years in storage, maybe more.