Trouble starting
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 7:43 pm
I've got a sequencer, and am not getting any sort of starting success, not even a cough. I tried some starting fluid, and after some cranking got a cough and a backfire out of the throttle body. An inductive timing light flashes as I crank, it's really hard to see the timing numbers while cranking, but I think I'm around 20 degrees. I'm using a 36-1 wheel with and a distributor-mounted cam sync tooth. I've double-checked the teeth between the crank sensor and tooth 1, and the cam tooth. I'm not sure where I should start with the injector pulsewidth for cranking with this setup. The engine is 416CI V-8, and I the injectors are 39lb/hr (8 injectors). The default was something like 11ms at -40F and 3ms at 160F. I adjusted these from 1.5ms up to 13ms, but nothing happened. I'm wondering where a good place to start is for this. I'll also keep trying to get a better look at the timing, but if it is about 20 degrees, it should start fine as that is close to where I ran before the MS conversion. I attached an msq and log also.