JimM and MarkLW and DanB know full well how my Mallory Unilite kinda messed up a smooth trip in the rockies last summer and ever since then Ive been chasing that gremlin. I think we found it now. I ordered a new Lectriclimited Breakerless ignition setup for a standard Chev distributor. My mechanic has torn his left over hair out trying to make it work. It should be simple, its one wire. After a January attempt to get that installed, we sent back the first module thinking it was defective, new one arrived and yesteday. He tried that and it also didnt allow any spark at all in the bench test. This morning I went to his shop and we called their Tech dept. and walked thru it, we did it right. BUT after a few questions about wiring, we found that when previous owner installed the Mallory Dist. he ran the standard resistor wire for the ignition to a Resistor Ceramic block that came with the Mallory kit. In other words, about double the OHMS that was needed. The Camaro didnt have any ceramic block, just the resistor wire from the factory. The Mallory used both but that might have been why it was tempermental at times too. Tech guy said to remove the ceramic block and take the resistor wire straight to the standard Chev coil and BINGO the Dist. came to life as we were laying across the fenders. It was not installed yet, just field testing but SPARK flew and my mechanic said 'its about time'. The instructions say to use original resistor wire OR ceramic resistor, but it didnt say "dont use both" which we were doing unknowingly. So this afternoon he is putting in my new chev. dist. with elec. ignition and that should really fire up ole "thunder".
He also found why its been stumbling and running rich at idle, the acceleator pump in the Qjet was bad, it wasnt giving the 'squirt' needed on start up at all. He's rebuilding the Qjet too.
Im very hopefull this will bring the ole Camaro back to a strong life again finally.
My newly installed 700r has yet to get its test run either. A note on that, the elec. feed to the tranny should be a seperate feed from the fuse box IGN terminal. He tied it into a hot wire under the hood but that kept blowing turn signal fuses when the tranny torque converter solenoid snapped on.
So, a few bugs but this weekend I hope to finally give the car a good washing and get on the road again.
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I'll bet you'll be glad to have "thunder" sorted out. It would be good to have you back out here again. And you be able to enjoy the scenery instead of the backfires!

Thinking of riding over the "pass" myself, maybe Mem. Day weekend if they have the road open.
http://www.mdt.mt.gov/travinfo/beartooth/opening.shtml

John thats an awesome page and great videos of the clearing of Bear Tooth... we really will go that way again someday, it was so nice out there and such great folks :thumbsup:

Good to hear thunder's getting dialed in Jim... That resister wire has been the nemis more times than I care to count but usually just effects hei ignition performance not actually running...

awesome vids!

glad to hear thunder is coming back to life, Jim!!!