Shane Porter

Any news ?

redline2k

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I have recently had 2 of these boxes be dead right out of the box. I am think of switching to this: http://daytona-sensors.com/SmartSpark.html Going to head over and talk to them today.

LS1-450

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Yah, all the MSD non-sense over the past year or so has me thinking about alternate solutions, as well. We have used Accel boxes, in the past, w/ good success. Haven't looked into them lately though, in order to see if they sell a timing box w/ programming capabilities. Am gonna have to do that.

ZONES89RS

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I've just got the best luck then with MSD. That smart spark **** looks expensive to get everything to work.

Shane Porter

+2 .
I cant get over how easy and idiot proof the msd is.
Id only end up doing more damage if there was too much crap too fiddle with.

redline2k

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If you already have an msd harness the smart spark is pretty cheap. If you don't retail is only a 100 more than the msd. I would gladly pay that not to have to keep 2 over everything just in case of a failure. In the last 6 months I have seen a bad harness, and 2 defective boxes right out of the box. It is getting old fast.

ZONES89RS

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Like I said, I must have the best luck. But I have not had to buy a box in a year.

speedtigger

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I would look closely at the main harness plugs and wire connections to them. They can be problematic and cause many gremlins.

Shane Porter

Agree

redline2k

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LOL last one we had was dead out of the box no crank signal. The wiring harness did have a loose pin also, but box didn't work even with a different harness. To make it worse it was on a rear engine Shelby race car and the starter was near impossible to remove to get to the crank sensor.

LS1-450

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Wow, that sucks.

To those of whom have not had problems, I too haven't had an MSD issue, knock on wood. That doesn't mean that we don't pay attention to what's been happening to others. Would rather know about issues & then try to avoid or plan for them.

FLYNAVY30

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Sorry for the delay, but I finally have a definitive answer. In my case, it was the passenger side connector. I gave all the male pins a slight angle with a flat head screw driver, carefully reconnected everything, and it fired right up. My plan us to use this weekend to carefully cut off the connectors and hard wire the MSD harness to the coil harness. I realize there are a number of other issues out there with these boxes, but in my case, this was the issue. Hopefully this thread will help out others in the future!

radchevy

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This thread scares me. I just installed the MSD 6010 and I have no spark at all. I have the ground to battery. When Key is on there is power to each of the the coils but no pulse when cranking. I know all sensors are good because i removed the factory ECM and harness. We have set these up on other cars and no issues. MSD quality must have taken a major ****.

Will be on the phone Monday.

Violence.z06

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Phone to MSD is useless. They are hiding the fact these boxes suck. Just go through all the plug, wires. check for breaks. Check the grounds make sure they are good. Run ALOT of grounds. to battery, to chassis, to everything.

Hunted a gremlin for a long time in a friends car. Total PITA and it took a while to find.

radchevy

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May just return it and purchase "Daytona Sensor" ls controller