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[Heavensheros]

ok so at idle my air/fuel gauge maxes out on lean so its running SUPER lean. give it a little gas it will go to 14.7 and slowly work back up to lean.

When i drive it i hear a lot of air moving like a big leak but i don't see a big leak and the boost gauge will hit 5psi and jump to 0 repeatedly and i hear like the air box closing the flap. when you boost to 12+ MASSES of backfires and NO POWER and then she will idle hard. turn off and idle will return to normal.

My plugs on my stock capri are set at 1-2-3-4
Plugs on MY capri are set 1-3-2-4 and she will not turn over when set 1-2-3-4 my stock capri WILL turn over when set 1-3-2-4. MY capri will also turn over when set to 4-3-2-1 but will idle very rough.

I did the turn the #1 piston to compression stroke and set dizzy to #1 fire and beyond that for timing i dont know what to do. dizzy is set 3/4 back.

the exhaust is louder than usual but could that be from going from cat and glasspack to just glasspack.

if anyone could please help and have any information before i give up and take to a mechanic and say fix my mistake that would be greatly helped

[Phillip]

sounds like its out of time to me.

[bryanknight]

the timing your using is wrong    number one is on the passanger side  so put plugs 1  2 3 4 on the motor and the fire on the dis its 1 3 4 2

[bryanknight]

if want to read more in to it go to the 323gt/gtx and look down to firing order and you can see the cap and everything of joes and me talking about it for coco customs

[Heavensheros]

ok idk why i am so confused with this so please help ...

Facing windsheild looking at engine

1= near cam gears
2= right of that
3= right of that
4= Closest to Distributor

Distributor goes when facing the cam gears numbers read from left to right 4312 when do i put the corresponding numbers.

[Rocketman]

Connect the terminals to their corresponding cylinders? they're numbered? firing order's got nothing to do with it...put 1 to 1... 2 to 2 ... etc.

Here's pic?

 

it should look something like that...

[Heavensheros]

i did that put 1 to 1 2 to 2 3 to 3 and she doesnt turn over >.< bu she will turn over if i put 1 to 1 2 to 3 3 to 2 4 to 4 >.< WTF is going on with my car.

[sterling94capri]

An off topic question. Rocketman what kind ok bov is that on your motor? Is it a good choice for a bt6 ? hook up looks a lot easier than some of them I have been thinking of.Thanks,Rocky.

[bryanknight]

have you had your dist out of the car ?  i did this once not sure its your problem but you can put the dist in 180 out.. the only difference is the end that slides in to the cam, one side is a little bigger then the other   if that piece gets bent or anything then it will go both ways.. i did not see this till i got the new dist from russ that the new dist would only go in one way  but mine would go either way and it would run weird...  look inside the dist make sure the bearings are still good like my old one had a lot or slot in it making it hard to start and so on..

[Heavensheros]

ok the dizzy was out of the car and i had the internals taken out maybe i have the wires mixed inside and maybe the dizzy in backwards ... is the vacuum line actuator suppose to be facing up or down ?

[Rocketman]

Its supposed to be facing up like it is in the pic. The dizzy is keyed into the camshaft - the little metal bar is only supposed to fit into the cam one way. Did you force it in? I'm guessing you managed to fit that into the cam backwards. Take it out, try again - you'll see the bar and the slot in the cam are offset ever so slightly from the center.

Rocky - thats a cheap generic BOV I ran for a while on my first capri...they pretty much suck, there are *many* better choices out there. It works but it doesnt sound near as well as anything else, and I have my doubts as to how well it actually bypassed air.

[Heavensheros]

i will check it seemed to go in easy but could i have possibly crossed some wires inside the dizzy ? rocket do you have any pics of a dizzy that's 100% correct ? maybe the wires inside dizzy are crossed possibly

[Rocketman]

Maybe I'm not sure - everything in there is pretty much cut to length. Why'd you take it apart?

[Heavensheros]

to get cleaned and painted

[Gostlrs]

RED......