wiring the 2.0 pinto

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wiring the 2.0 pinto

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good evening

ive been connecting my engine i dropped into my capri and came to the coil and the wires and i must admit im useless with wires. my 1.6 was running a coil and points and the 2.0 im putting in runs electronic dizzy
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these are the wires that are causing my headache.. do i need all of the wires?

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these are the ends that were cut, can any body tell me which go where?
brown
brown white
brown green
yellow black (thick wire)
yellow black

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can anybody let me know where these go too?

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nearly there :) just need the wiring, my carb setting up and the prop shaft and gearbox mount that i have ordered
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Post by Overdrive »

Hi the last picture with the 2 plugs and resitor go to the coil I know that as in the middle of refitting a one in a sierra which has the same ignition on it I have looked the rest of the wiring disappears into the loom It may be easier to use your standart dizzy and points
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Re: wiring the 2.0 pinto

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Use the points dizzy.
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Re: wiring the 2.0 pinto

Post by Knez »

Points dizzys are c**p ;)

Taken from the net somewhere:
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A. Brown - Earth
B. Green - To the coil negative terminal, if your car is fitted with a tachometer, you can connect this wire to the original wire that runs between the tacho and the coil negative terminal.
C. Black/Green cranking feed. Connect to the appropriate terminal on the starter.
D & E. Black - Common ignition feed connect to the coil positive terminal this should pick up the "ignition on" live which will be via the ballast resistor.
Black/Red & Green/Yellow both connect to the multiplug on the distributor.

Might be to some help. I would scrap the loom and make my own from scratch, but that's just me.

Good luck!
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Sierra leccy ignition FTW!

Never had an issue with mine. Fit and forget.

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I have had an Allison electronic ign on various Fords for 25 years now ... never missed a beat , set and forget ,.....ditch the points . Don't get me wrong , points were fine in their day , but why would you bother now when you don't have to :)
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Click photo below, might be colours there:
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Ah, and when I got mine, the colours never quite matched any diagram I could find, so some spade connectors and a bit of trial and error might be needed. You can probably work 3 of the 6 out, was a long time ago now so can't really remember.

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rich_jc wrote:Sierra leccy ignition FTW!

Never had an issue with mine. Fit and forget.

Rich
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