How to check timing with timing light - s14 ?

[Master Chief]

Hi all.

Never had to do this before, so i was wondering.
How do you use a timing gun with the S14, as there are no inginition wires, to clamp the inductive pickup to ?
I know that on the S14 OEM coils harness there is a wire just for that, but since i have the SplitFire D2 coil's and harness, i dont have that wire anymore.

Would clamping the pickup to the wires of the first coil pack, work ?

I am installing my Haltech, and need to confirm that the trigger settings, work ok.

Thanks,
Dany.

[krappy]

get a spark plug wire connect it to the coil pack and connect the other end to the spark plug.... attach the pickup to the sparkplug wire...

[Master Chief]

This is something specific for the job, or should i just get a spark plug wire, and cut it on one side, to stick it inside the coil spark plug hole.... ???

Thanks.

[krappy]

This is something specific for the job, or should i just get a spark plug wire, and cut it on one side, to stick it inside the coil spark plug hole.... ???

Thanks.
i really just used a KA spark plug wire pulled back the end that usually would connect to the distributor and pushed the metal contact on the wire into the coil pack and the other end to the sparkplug.... worked great everytime...

[Master Chief]

Thanks , will do - now just to get this damn gun to work...

[kamikazekid]

just put the signal clamp around the #1 coilpack wires, no need to pull em out and use a sparkplug wire. then time it normally

[surreybc]

Dumb question, but if you have a normal s14, do you just clamp around the no. one sparkplug wire like you for the s13?

[Mikey88]

Dumb question, but if you have a normal s14, do you just clamp around the no. one sparkplug wire like you for the s13?

shouldnt be no difference

[Master Chief]

Well actualy there is a difference.

The inductive pickup on those timing guns, is made to pick up high bursts of voltage.
This is something that you have between the COIL and SPARK PLUG.
The voltage pulse at the wires going to the coil, are much weaker than the voltage pulse going from the coil to the plug.

I guess it should be a rathe sensitive pickup to work on those wires....

[Mikey88]

^^^yah true but he wanted to know if there was a difference with connecting the no 1 on the s14 than the s13 spark plug wire...

[tukn9s]

Go to the back of the coil pack harness, there is a gray looped wire there, thats what you should use. Its on the coil pack harness.

[sbanzer123]

Go to the back of the coil pack harness, there is a gray looped wire there, thats what you should use. Its on the coil pack harness.

bingo! + rep lol

[TheTimanator]

Go to the back of the coil pack harness, there is a gray looped wire there, thats what you should use. Its on the coil pack harness.

have you ever tried it? Didn't work for me. Wasn't accurate at all.

[Ninjabread]

Same here, used that loop and I was off by 5 degrees.

Just put it around the coil pack wires for the first plug, works fine for me.

[clark]

Same here, used that loop and I was off by 5 degrees.

Just put it around the coil pack wires for the first plug, works fine for me.

god, wtf is up with that loop! i had the same problem.

yeah i just use a spare spark plug wire, take the coil pack out, plug the spark wire plug down into the well, then shove the other end of the spark plug wire into the coilpack. connect timing light pickup to the spark plug wire, blah blah

the rest is in the FSM.

[tukn9s]

Work fine on mine, but both ways should get it done for ya.

[Master Chief]

Did anyone see what actualy wrote on the first post in this tread ???

"I know that on the S14 OEM coils harness there is a wire just for that, but since i have the SplitFire D2 coil's and harness, i dont have that wire anymore."

So, no - I dont have that loop - wich is not that accurate to begin with.