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123 Distributor install help - B20F

I see one problem in your photos - the way the trigger points are wired.

In the original configuration there are two sets of contact points in the distributor. They are wired to the computer via THREE wires. The center wire is common to both contact points. So it takes the center pin and one of the pins beside it to trigger two injectors. Then 180 degrees later, the center pin and the OTHER side pin trigger the OTHER two injectors. But the 123 dizzy only has two wires coming out to trigger ALL 4 injectors. You have connected one of those wires to the LH spade and the other wire is connected to the RH spade. You have NOTHING connected to the center (common) spade, so there's no way you can be triggering either pair of injectors.

The only way I see this "maybe" working is if you were to jumper the LH and RH spades together and connect them to one of the dizzy wires, and connect the second dizzy wire to the center (common) spade. That way the dizzy is telling the computer to gang fire ALL 4 injectors simultaneously. There's no way the 123 dizzy is going to fire the injectors in pairs when there is only two wires to work with. I don't know enough about the inner workings of the computer to say if it will balk at the command to gang fire all 4 together.

Now maybe you are supposed to connect one dizzy wire to the LH spade, the other dizzy wire to the RH spade, and ground the center spade????? That sounds pretty iffy to me. I don't think I'd try that in fear of damaging the computer. What do they say in their installation instructions? Bottom line, that dizzy is not really plug-and-play in a D-jet system.

So now I have to ask the question what prompted you to convert to that type of ignition over the old points system?
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