Peppy_t92 Silver Donating Members 748 Member For: 11y 24d Gender: Male Location: Liverpool Posted 28/06/13 12:42 AM Share Posted 28/06/13 12:42 AM Ive worked it out. For some reason I have had to splice the red/green to the positive coil wire and connect the red wire to a separate ignition source Thanks for your help guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratter Member 6,793 Member For: 17y 11m Gender: Male Location: @ my laptop Posted 28/06/13 01:59 AM Share Posted 28/06/13 01:59 AM were you trying to power it up from the same coil source? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppy_t92 Silver Donating Members 748 Member For: 11y 24d Gender: Male Location: Liverpool Posted 28/06/13 02:07 AM Share Posted 28/06/13 02:07 AM Yes, the MSD instructions were to cut the coil power wire and connect the red wire to the cut side going back to the ecu/ignition source and connect the red/green wire to the cut side going to the coil. But I have now re-joined the original coil power wire and spliced the red/green wire to that, and put a separate ignition to the red wire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phtmt6ute Member 30 Member For: 15y 3m 29d Gender: Male Location: Central Coast NSW Posted 31/07/13 08:42 AM Share Posted 31/07/13 08:42 AM 23r Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawlass Silver Donating Members 1,161 Member For: 16y 5m 18d Gender: Male Location: left right out Posted 16/09/13 07:07 AM Share Posted 16/09/13 07:07 AM I am having trouble getting the MSD unit to operate corrrectly. I have installed as described ( cut into the positive /red wire on coil #6 ) which didnt work-it just ran rough on 5 cylinders so I tried Peppy-t92's solution. That too ran rough on 5. I have checked the earth is good, got me stumped. Any ideas people? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawlass Silver Donating Members 1,161 Member For: 16y 5m 18d Gender: Male Location: left right out Posted 28/09/13 05:59 AM Share Posted 28/09/13 05:59 AM Many thanks to chilaxn for his help in trying to get the msd tach converter working for my Eboost2. As Peppy_t92 stated above, to get a MSD 8913 to provide a signal in a B series you need to splice the red with a black stripe wire of the MSD unit into the pink with a green stripe positive coil wire of number 3 cylinder.Then take the positive power from the cigi lighter and attach to the red wire of the MSD unit. I used one of the bottom bolts holding the ICC unit in for an earth, and tucked the msd unit up behind the glovebox/transtunnel area and ran the coil signal wire through the grommet in the firewall behind the glovebox.All working fine now, so I can correct boost relative to the rpm, and I also picked up a led shift light ring to make things a little easier at the strip.After many emails to MSD they advised me to use a MSD 8918, which wires up the same way as I have done above but uses a clamp arangement on the coil wire , avoiding cutting wires. Either will work. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIP85 REST IN PEACE V8 Donating Members 469 Member For: 16y 6d Gender: Male Location: Woodridge on the park bench Posted 06/12/13 01:45 AM Share Posted 06/12/13 01:45 AM Having dramas with msd 1898 unit going to try auto meter unit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawlass Silver Donating Members 1,161 Member For: 16y 5m 18d Gender: Male Location: left right out Posted 06/12/13 06:29 AM Share Posted 06/12/13 06:29 AM You mean MSD 8918?Whats the prob?, have you tried the pink/green wire on #3 cylinder? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIP85 REST IN PEACE V8 Donating Members 469 Member For: 16y 6d Gender: Male Location: Woodridge on the park bench Posted 06/12/13 02:49 PM Share Posted 06/12/13 02:49 PM Tried that according to msd the processor in the eboost can't read with the msd unit. We tried from the computer as well also number 6 and 3 coil like the instructions said ordered an auto meter one see if that works once it's here. So much time trying to get it to work so frustrating Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mummba Member 525 Member For: 14y 1m 22d Gender: Male Location: perth Posted 20/07/14 07:20 AM Share Posted 20/07/14 07:20 AM Does anybody know if the FG has the same colour coil wires to b series??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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