SmokeyVette
Adrenaline Junkie
Here's my problem:
Recently (less than a month ago) I installed an MSD Streetfire HEI Distributor. That has been the only mod that I've done in a LONG time. I set the timing and then drove the car DAILY for about two weeks. I figured I'd give the car a rest and do some minor tweaking to the carb and other such items for the big burnout contest that was this past weekend. Everything went smoothly but I didn't drive the car for the past week. This past weekend I put the car in the big burnout contest that we have every year, I drove it a couple of days in advance to make sure that everything worked fine and it did. During the burnout I ran her to 6500 in first gear, 6000 in second and 5500 in third, I thought real seriously about going into fourth but I didn't.
While doing that I shredded the alternator belt, I parked the car after all was said and done and my temp. gauge never got above 240 (steel shim head gaskets, so we're good there).
I trailered the car home because I didn't feel like messing with it after the festivities away from my tools and I was busy picking up my 1st place trophy. Later that night I changed the belt and took her out for a victory drive.
It was on that drive, after she got good and warmed up, that she began to stumble and actually died on me while going down the road and on the gas on a few occasions. She fired right back up by just slipping her into neutral and hitting the key, but I decided to head home.
On the way home she died and DIDN'T fire right back up, thank God that I had anticipated this and had enough speed to coast the extra half mile and the full length of my rather long driveway. She never fired back up that night, that was Saturday.
Today (Wednesday) I finally got time to check her out so I walked out there and hit the key just to see what would happen, she fired right up and idled there for 25 minutes, then she died. I was able to get her to fire again and I tried revving her, she died at 3500 RPM.
Slowly piece-by-piece I replaced components on the MSD HEI starting with the ignition module with a known good one, then I moved on to the coil, then the little condensor unit and finally, the whole damn distributor cap.
Each time I'd replace a component she'd fire up but die shortly after no matter whether I was in the gas or not. I know that I'm getting fuel, and it's dying like I'm just turning the key back off.
A couple of times I noticed that after a couple of minutes the buzzer would start buzzing all-of-the-sudden like I had just turned on the key.
So what say ye? Is it something in the ignition system itself or does it sound like the actual ignition switch?
Recently (less than a month ago) I installed an MSD Streetfire HEI Distributor. That has been the only mod that I've done in a LONG time. I set the timing and then drove the car DAILY for about two weeks. I figured I'd give the car a rest and do some minor tweaking to the carb and other such items for the big burnout contest that was this past weekend. Everything went smoothly but I didn't drive the car for the past week. This past weekend I put the car in the big burnout contest that we have every year, I drove it a couple of days in advance to make sure that everything worked fine and it did. During the burnout I ran her to 6500 in first gear, 6000 in second and 5500 in third, I thought real seriously about going into fourth but I didn't.
While doing that I shredded the alternator belt, I parked the car after all was said and done and my temp. gauge never got above 240 (steel shim head gaskets, so we're good there).
I trailered the car home because I didn't feel like messing with it after the festivities away from my tools and I was busy picking up my 1st place trophy. Later that night I changed the belt and took her out for a victory drive.
It was on that drive, after she got good and warmed up, that she began to stumble and actually died on me while going down the road and on the gas on a few occasions. She fired right back up by just slipping her into neutral and hitting the key, but I decided to head home.
On the way home she died and DIDN'T fire right back up, thank God that I had anticipated this and had enough speed to coast the extra half mile and the full length of my rather long driveway. She never fired back up that night, that was Saturday.
Today (Wednesday) I finally got time to check her out so I walked out there and hit the key just to see what would happen, she fired right up and idled there for 25 minutes, then she died. I was able to get her to fire again and I tried revving her, she died at 3500 RPM.
Slowly piece-by-piece I replaced components on the MSD HEI starting with the ignition module with a known good one, then I moved on to the coil, then the little condensor unit and finally, the whole damn distributor cap.
Each time I'd replace a component she'd fire up but die shortly after no matter whether I was in the gas or not. I know that I'm getting fuel, and it's dying like I'm just turning the key back off.
A couple of times I noticed that after a couple of minutes the buzzer would start buzzing all-of-the-sudden like I had just turned on the key.
So what say ye? Is it something in the ignition system itself or does it sound like the actual ignition switch?