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Originally Posted by Longhorn Man
simple/stupid mistake I have made... make 100% sure the wire feeding the coil in the cap is plugged into the positive terminal, and not the tach.
Is the pickup coil plugged into the cap?
Is that Accell coil any good? (new Accell stuff is junk and not worth buying, they used to be semi-decent at best)
As mentioned before, the wire from the starter to the HEI is not needed. If you powered the HEI this way, it would spark for as long as you hold the key in the crank position, and then stop sparking as soon as you let off the key.
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So is it a viable guess that S on the solonoid means "start" and the R means "run or running" power?
I am curious because when I was first wiring up my ignition, I didn't have the pink wire hooked up to the ignition switch as "lil hoodlum" mentions and you could tell when engaging starter the ignition was firing and running until you left off key and it would die. When I finally caught on and hooked up the pink wire to ignition switch, it would remain running when I released the starter from cranking.
Now I'm going to have to research how the ignition switch routes power in different key positions. And where does the pink wire go to from the unfused link in fuse block in the engine bay side to keep the engine firing? I was under impression that the main red power cable to the "batt" lug on ignition switch routed that power to whatever position the key is in. That's why you have an "ACC" position to power devices in the rear position for example. Am I correct? If so this would simplify in my mind the dynamics of the ignition system.