I’m almost at the end of my rebuild project and I’m looking at the ignition options. I have a Pinto with twin 45 Dellorto’s and the old standby of the Sierra electronic distributor, however I’ve been looking at something more modern.
The options appear to be a more modern electronic distributor such as the H & H version or a total electronic system such as the Nodiz PRO.
The H & H has the advantages of cost and ease of installation. The Nodiz PRO has the advantages of only requiring a crank trigger for 2D mapping and can be relatively easily upgraded to 3D mapping. However, disadvantages are initial cost, especially for a trigger wheel kit, and installation on an old engine like a Pinto
The questions for me are more on the Nodiz PRO rather than just replacing the distributor. Please could anyone who has fitted one of these, or any other ECU system, share the details of how you did it:
- Trigger wheel, did you buy a kit, if so which one. If not, please can you share which trigger wheel you used and how you pinned, screwed, bolted, stopped it slipping, spacers used etc to the pully wheel.
- Crank sensor, if you didn’t use a kit which one did you use and how did you mount it.
- Did you remove the existing distributor completely, if so did you use an aftermarket drive option for the oil pump or make your own? If aftermarket who from, or how did you make your own?
- If you kept the distributor did you cut it down, if so how I’ve no idea how to do this, or did you use one of the aftermarket caps.
- I’ve seen pictures of the coil pack mounted on the top of the remains of the distributor, please could someone share how they did it.
- If you fitted this with the Mk2 RS2000 dash did the rev counter work using the Nodiz Pro output or did you need an interface kit, if so which one.
- The big one, are the benefits worth the money.
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