ignition upgrade

Justin · Post by **Justin** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 8:59 pm

I ended up having the wrong spark plug wire set so I went back to the truck shop that sold me the kit. He ordered the 10.4 Mill. race wires for the vortec engines. I'll be running those, new blaster coil, new msd 6a ignition, some nice $40 positive and negative battery terminals. All should be installed Friday. I will update on any moderate improvements.

a2b · Post by **a2b** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 9:00 am

wow. ya i wanted to do that too. i havent gotten around to it.

adrenalnjunky · Post by **adrenalnjunky** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 9:23 am

Justin,

How much is this new Ignition setup running you approximately?

I'm very interested in doing something similar if it give better performance/power

Justin · Post by **Justin** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 11:13 am

wires were $130 but you can purchase 8 mill wires for $70
MSD-6200 ignition was $150
MSD-8231 blaster coil was $40
MSD-8877 wire harness was $29

I bought the wires at a local truck and speed shop. All MSD components I bought from www.Summitracing.com . type in the respected msd names and you will see the listing. The wiring harness is not needed but I highly recommend it if you ever want to switch to the stock ignition setup. In some sense, I spent around $350. I also bought some battery terminals for my optima yellowtop to dress up the wiring a little better. That ran $40

Justin · Post by **Justin** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 3:37 pm

msd, coil, wires are in..Noticable improvements..especially on the highway. Only problem is now I have a ticking noise coming from the tweeters in my speakers....I think its telling me I need to replace my alternator

adrenalnjunky · Post by **adrenalnjunky** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 6:00 pm

Sounds like ALT or voltage regulator--which I think is built into the alternator on our trucks anyway.

I have noticed that with several of the Chevy's I have owned.

When I was running my big multi-amp stereo setup--my particular amps didnt have a lot of power supply filtering built into them, and the ground looping from the whole electrical system was nothing short of impossible to correct.

I gave up and ripped it all out for a smaller powere 10" Bazooka.