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#1 mighty_mini

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Posted 04 July 2004 - 05:09 PM

does anyone have a wiring diagram for a mk1 metro turbo ignition?

there seems to be no spark from the coil, but the distributor works, as we tried it on Bluemini(Red)'s car...we get a 13v reading from the coil, but when it turns over it drops instead of going up and crazy-like. :D tried different leads etc... thinking about maybe putting all the old system on and see if it starts... plus the metro connector on the distributor baffles me.. are they both the same, and connect to the coil (-)???

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Posted 04 July 2004 - 06:09 PM

do you not have a haynes for the metro?. if not i will try to sort a diagram out for you mate.

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Posted 04 July 2004 - 09:34 PM

there are two wires coming off the dizzy, one goes to positive side of the coil, the other goes to negative side of the coil. there should be a live to the coil, and a balast resister connected to it.

white from the dizzy goes to pos i think
white with trace goes to neg on coil
pos feed to coil
balast resister on pos side of coil.
i will take a photo of my setup for you if you like.

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Posted 04 July 2004 - 09:56 PM

i have pos on right place, neg on right place... isnt a basat resister just for interferance... aint got one.

pics would be great matey

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Posted 05 July 2004 - 12:29 PM

will be up asap.
i got to work every night for the next 4 weeks, so dunno exactly when but should be tonight

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Posted 05 July 2004 - 01:04 PM

quick Q, i got the mk1 dizzy... when i bought it, i got a coil, leads,cap and dizzy with the magnectic gubbins... am i missing something? a module of some kind?


plus my friggin oil return leaks (the bend it has to mount on is crazy!)

its smoking... cant tell it its from exhaust or sumwhere else... if its the turbo im selling the :D lot!

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Posted 05 July 2004 - 04:53 PM

The mk 1 dizy has a seperate module, the mk 2 dizzy has the module mounted on the side, small black box.

Phil. :grin:

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Posted 05 July 2004 - 05:36 PM

thats y it wont start then... aint got the module off the guy from ebay... tits!

if i had, said problems... could i tig weld an oil return for the turbo into the rocker cover?

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Posted 06 July 2004 - 10:10 PM

have you got a steel or ally rocker cover, if its ally, no you cant, because you would be trying to weld steel to ally and that just dont work.

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Posted 07 July 2004 - 07:41 AM

The oil return need to be below the Turbo.

Phil. :grin:

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Posted 07 July 2004 - 11:04 AM

stupid me! i thought he said oil feed!

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Posted 07 July 2004 - 06:18 PM

im running the oil return from the bottom of the turbo to the rocker... ive :D had it with the fuel pump!

tapped a thread in the cover, just gotta get a hose made up now.


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Posted 07 July 2004 - 09:52 PM

You can't run the oil return into the rocker cover !
The oil return is not under pressure, it needs to be below the Turbo in order for it to be able to drain.
That is why the metro Turbo has the return fitted into the back of the block where the fuel pump mounts on the normally aspirated engines.

Phil. :D




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